Colombia has been a showcase in the Latin American economic integration process after adopting fashionable theoretical models. Several policy instruments adopted have proclaimed that a definitive link emerging from open trading activities will ensure prolonged stages of growth. Empirical...

This paper analyses aspects of the US and Brazilian foreign policy. Some events relate actions linked to the political realism school and others embraced in the interdependence and globalization views. This paper explores the historical environment where the United States and Brazil followed...

One topic of interest for the social sciences and similar fields, such as business administration, economics and political science is globalization. Many researchers suggest that this is a new topic. Our research, however, looked into the assumptions of political and economic history concerning...

Foreign demand will place technology intensive productive factors and various areas of knowledge in motion. There will be institutional changes that will lead productive centers to modify their allocation of tasks and functions. Regional production centers, such as Bogota, as a city-region with...

This paper attempt to survey some political considerations that ended in the launching of the Summit of the Americas. This is a manifestation of the new uprising showed by the globalization process. We here by put into perspective economic assumptions that were conceived to launch the free trade...

Knowledge, the multinational firm, and the free flow of financial capital seem to be the new and perhaps leading actors in the emerging 21st century global economy. From a comparative basis and relating this variables we attempt in this paper to study and explore what we consider are basic...

The world had to go into a slow and painful path before a sort of world capitalist and trading environment transformed it into a single one-world one-market system. Several authors attempted to build a theoretical framework to offer an explanation of the way a world economic system was formed...

This paper deepens into the initial conditions that explain about the expansion of the nation-state particularly referring to the Colombia case, indicating how some political and economic facts present during the 19th century led to a first globalization attempt. This paper also reflex the...

Technological development and enlargement of investment currents during the second half of the 19th century and early twentieth century started an era of emerging global economy. Conditions are now given so a global market will spread during the 21st century, where the Nation-state will have to...

Colombia as many other emerging economies in the world, is facing new challenges and opportunities for growth, as a worldwide process of globalization that affects political and economic foundations is taking place. A historical comparative study is considered an important approach to framing...