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Your regionalism and mine : the United States and South American cooperation in the global pandemic
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Dória, Thaís and Long, Tom (Thomas Stephen) (2022) Your regionalism and mine : the United States and South American cooperation in the global pandemic. In: Deciancio, Melisa and Quiliconi, Cíntia, (eds.) Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID : Challenges and Opportunities Post-pandemic. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 9781032129457
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Abstract
International relations often adopt a broadly functionalist view of regionalism: states create regional organisations to address shared problems. However, faced with the unprecedented global health emergency of COVID-19, regionalism in the Americas largely failed to produce regional goods during the pandemic’s first year. The shortfall in regional cooperation emerged from a conjunction of conditions in place preceding the pandemic’s outset. We apply a framework of ideology, leadership, and interactions across three time periods: just before the pandemic, during the first year of the pandemic in 2020, and subsequently during 2021. Fragmented visions of regionalism, weak leadership will and capabilities, and adverse interactions among major powers darkened the inter-American panorama. The United States and Latin America approach regionalism through distinct ideal-typical models – as a “protectorship” or partnership for the United States, or as confederative or relational regionalism in the case of Latin America. While technical cooperation still played an important role, high-level political reticence and competition over scarce resources dampened initial regional responses to the pandemic. A reassertion of US regional engagement in 2021 has produced greater, though still uneven, inter-America regional cooperation, though heavily reliant on US whims and fragmented by ad hoc extra-regional interactions.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Regionalism -- South America, South America -- Foreign relations -- 21st century, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Political aspects -- South America, COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- International cooperation | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781032129457 | ||||||
Book Title: | Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID : Challenges and Opportunities Post-pandemic | ||||||
Editor: | Deciancio, Melisa and Quiliconi, Cíntia | ||||||
Official Date: | 22 July 2022 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 296 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.4324/9781003230403 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID : Challenges and Opportunities Post-pandemic on 22/07/2022, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Regional-and-International-Cooperation-in-South-America-After-COVID-Challenges/Deciancio-Quiliconi/p/book/9781032129457 | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 February 2022 | ||||||
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