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In the 1960s, when region building was first having a renaissance, economist Gunnar Myrdal (1968: 39) issued a cautious note, suggesting that ‘the regional approach has no intrinsic justification. There are no mystical qualities in geographical proximity that make neighboring nations a “unit” in any real sense culturally, politically or economically’. True to this dictum, Latin America is a vast and uneven continent of many contrasts that escapes ‘essentialist’ characterizations, such as language, Hispanic-Catholic traditions or a single civilization, as Huntington (1998) would have it. In the region, the differences in size and levels of development are several times larger than those found between the actual and prospective members of the European Union. But such contrasts still leave room for positive assertions about shared trends, common dilemmas or recurrent policy features that prompt region-building efforts.
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Tussie, D. (2010). Hemispheric Relations: Budding Contests in the Dawn of a New Era. In: Mace, G., Cooper, A.F., Shaw, T.M. (eds) Inter-American Cooperation at a Crossroads. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294837_2
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