This volume analyses South American regional and international cooperation during the COVID19 crisis started in 2020. Across thirteen chapters a collection of leading experts address how regional collaboration has developed, evolved, and recoiled. The chapters explore the state of regionalism at the pandemic surge and the challenges and opportunities this situation has opened for regional and international cooperation. Authors analyze the role of extra-regional powers and traditional regional leaders during the pandemic, identifying the extent to which regional cooperation has been possible across several policy agendas. They argue that fragmented visions of regionalism, ideological polarization, and weak leadership, has prevailed from before the pandemic which, accompanied by adverse interactions among major powers, has ensured that cooperation has remained bilateral rather than regional. Ultimately all these factors have created a complex scenario in which disintegration dynamics have emerged, darkening, even more, the South American regional panorama. Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and policy specialists of regionalism and regional integration, Latin American studies, international relations and international political economy.

Este libro analiza algunos aspectos derivados de la inserción de América Latina en la economía internacional: el impacto de la globalización, la labor del comercio exterior y de las inversiones extranjeras, los movimientos migratorios, el desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías, la promoción del turismo o la utilización del euro como moneda de reserva. El volumen es fruto de la colaboración entre el Instituto de Economía Internacional de la Universidad de Alicante y el Centro de Investigaciones en Economía Internacional de La Habana, y ha contado también con el apoyo del Proyecto Habana y del Centro Mario Benedetti de la Universidad de Alicante. Dado su alcance multidisciplinar, la obra resulta de gran utilidad para los profesores y estudiantes de Economía, así como para todos aquellos lectores interesados en la materia. Los editores del presente libro, Gloria Pardo y Andrés Pedreño, son profesores de Economía Aplicada en la Universidad de Alicante y han dirigido su Instituto de Economía Internacional. Además, en las páginas de esta obra han colaborado profesores de las Universidades de Alicante, La Habana y Autónoma de Chapingo (México).

Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt recognises the systemic nature of the Global South’s external debt, revealed only further by the economic uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the need to analyse it in relation to existing imperialist structures.