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Olivier Dabène, « Foreword - Resilience of Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean », Archive ouverte de Sciences Po (SPIRE), ID : 10670/1.m8e2ai
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‘Consistency despite instability, resilience despite crises’ was the oxymoronI tried to elucidate in a book1 that Andrés Rivarola Puntiglianoand José Briceño-Ruiz have decided to build upon. Latin America has,indeed, a very rich and puzzling history regarding regionalism. Sinceindependence, the idea has always been there, but concrete steps weretimid and often frustrating. After World War II, the initiatives proliferated,with a succession of four waves of agreements, in the years1950–1960, 1970–1980, 1990 and 2000–2010. Each wave was launchedby a paradigm shift intersecting with disruptions, mostly economiccrises, and can be explained by a combination of convergence ofinterests and diffusion of ideas. I will come back to this point later on...