This paper deals with the resurgence of populism in Latin America, and particularly with the ideological underpinnings of this phenomenon. Quite unexpectedly, populism has reemerged in several countries, such as Argentina and Peru, in the wake of drastic and all-encompassing neoliberal reforms....

This paper discusses the prospects for the integration of South America, stressing that there are two competing projects. On the one hand, we have the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), as proposed by Washington, or bilateral free trade agreements with the United States in the FTAA format....

In Miami in December 1994 the heads of State of 34 countries of the hemisphere decided to construct a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by the year 2005. The initiative was backed by an ambitious Plan of Action which gained further definition in declarations of the trade ministers in follow...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the political economy of preferential trade agreements based on a sequential non-cooperative Stackelberg political game between a large economy and a small one, in which the political dispute of rival lobby groups defines the unilateral stance of both...

Este trabajo se propone analizar el rol de la politica comercial dentro de los distintos campos en los que la intervencion publica puede contribuir a mejorar la insercion internacional de la Argentina. Para ello se considera en primer lugar el contexto internacional y las perspectivas planteadas...