La Alianza Del Pacifico: Nueva Muestra Del Regionalismo En América Latina (The Pacific Alliance: A New Sample of Regionalism in Latin America)

Spanish Abstract: La Alianza del Pacifico se instituyo como una propuesta de integracion profunda entre Chile, Colombia, Mexico y Peru. La pregunta que se plantea en este trabajo es ?cual de los enfoques del regionalismo en America Latina es el mas idoneo para caracterizar teoricamente la iniciativa de la Alianza del Pacifico? En este sentido, se exponen los conceptos de regionalismo abierto y regionalismo estrategico para caracterizar esta iniciativa, y se resaltan sus limites a partir de evidencia empirica. El trabajo concluye que los conceptos de regionalismo que dan mayor enfasis a las dinamicas comerciales no son suficientes para comprender el funcionamiento y desempeno actual de la Alianza del Pacifico, por lo que se introduce un enfoque analitico complementario, el cual responde a dinamicas globales de largo plazo. English Abstract: The Pacific Alliance was established as a model of deep integration between Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The question raised in this paper is which of the Latin American regionalism approaches is more proper for the theoretical characterization of the Pacific Alliance initiative. In this sense, the concepts of open regionalism and strategic regionalism are explained for the characterization of this initiative and their limits are highlighted from empirical evidence. The paper concludes that regionalism concepts which give greater emphasis to commercial dynamics are not enough to understand the current operation and performance of the Pacific Alliance. As such, a complementary analytical approach is introduced which responds to the long term global dynamics.