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Regionalization has increasingly become a central issue in national and international debates since the end of the Cold War (Buzan and Wæver, 2003). According to some experts, the end of bipolarity between the United States and the Soviet Union paved the way towards a multilateral world, where regional blocs are gaining predominance in world politics (Hettne and Söderbaum, 2007). Regional entities are now taking over areas that used to be the exclusive domain of nation states. Scholars have presented the integration process in Europe (the European Union) as an example. However, regional integration has also been relaunched in Latin America.
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Puntigliano, A.R., Briceño-Ruiz, J. (2013). Introduction: Regional Integration — Linking Past and Present. In: Puntigliano, A.R., Briceño-Ruiz, J. (eds) Resilience of Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328373_1
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