The politics of contestation on the part of secondary regional powers such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela towards Brazil as the regional leader oscillate between competition and cooperation, inasmuch as the South American region has one regional power and is a zone of negative peace...

"Excellent set of studies by different authors on the origins, evolution, and prospects for the Group of Three, conformed by Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela in 1989. Enlightening analysis of the factors that facilitate or obstruct cooperation among these countries and of the gradual...