Open Dialogue with Stephen Clarkson from the South of the Continent: The Current Situation in the Continent—Globalization, Dependency, and Governance

Abstract

The meeting of the North and South of the American continent awakened reflection to Stephen’s categories of analysis on autonomy and national balances as a promising path of greater democratic quality of the people, reaffirming social justice, ecological sustainability, and active civic democracy. The new regional forms of integration, the globalizing dynamics of the States and Global Economic Groups are present, articulating the procedures of transnational governance and dependency. Processes ordered by the neoconservative paradigm, outlined in the modality of staples, transnational governance, provincial and municipal autonomy, the constitution of new supranational blocks. The work also observes the integration processes in the South through the behaviour of Argentina and Brazil’ governments and the loss of entity and crisis of the regional blocks.