El presente trabajo delinea, por un lado, el ascenso y caida del nacionalismo economico en America Latina entre 1970 y mediados de los anos ochenta y, por otro lado, las premisas fundamentales del llamado "Consenso de Washington" entre EEUU, el FMI y el Banco Mundial, el que orienta en los anos...

This paper applies an agnostic structural vector autoregression (SVAR) approach to study the response of four Andean economies (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) to international shocks. More specifically, we look at the response of gross domestic product, the real exchange rate, fiscal and...

The Andean Court of Justice (hereinafter the ACJ) has shown its interest in respecting the international obligations incumbent on Member States as parties to other treaties by considering these as sources of law in the Andean Community. The ACJ has also shown a certain openness to international...

Through a comparative analysis of five Andean cases (Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia) I demonstrate that the conflicts and struggles over capitalist globalization in the Andes are intricately connected to the political power of the military in the region. I examine how conflicts...