Power Blocs and Regional Organizations in Latin America: A Poulantzian Perspective

Autor(es)

Tatiana Berringer ^[1] ; Mariana Davi Ferreira ^[2]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Universidade Federal do ABC - Brasil

^[2] Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas - Brasil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE POLITICA INTERNACIONAL; v. 65, n. 1 2022-09-19.

Resumo

Abstract This article aims to present the Marxist theoretical framework based on Nicos Poulantzas’s thought to analyse regionalism in Latin America. We propose that regionalism is determined by the interests of the bourgeois hegemonic fraction in the power bloc. The originality of the theoretical proposal presented lies in the thesis that regionalisms are the fruit of relations between power blocs of the member states. The article illustrates the recent processes of regionalism in Latin America that, from this theoretical proposal’s point of view, can vary among the following models: open regionalism (related to the interests of comprador bourgeoisie); multidimensional regionalism (linked to internal bourgeoisie interests); and anti-imperialism (related to a national bourgeoisie project). We conclude that the dependency of these social formations, the presence of foreign capital, and the role of US imperialism should be considered in the analysis of regionalism in Latin America. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 19/01515-0 - Relações Brasil-China nos governos Lula e as contradições da burguesia interna
• Beneficiário: Mariana Davi Ferreira
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado