programa

S13.9 B: Latin America insertion in a multipolar world: In search for new
theoretical and methodological perspectives
Hora: Miércoles, 29/06/2016: 17:15 - 19:15 · Lugar: HOSPEDERÍA FONSECA. AULA 2.3
Presidente de la sesión: Edme Dominguez Reyes, Universidad de Gotemburgo
Presidente de la sesión: Isidro Morales Moreno, . Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública. Tecnológico de
Monterrey
Mesa 2: Economía global, regionalismo, dependencias.
Comentarista: Isidro Morales Moreno, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Costa Rica’s outward-looking development: from ‘agriculture of change’ to food insecurity (1990-
2008)
Elisa Botella Rodríguez
Universidad de Salamanca, España; ebotella@usal.es
Costa Rica has been a great example of the neoliberal approach to agricultural policy implemented during the
last two decades in most Latin American countries. Costa Rica shifted from import substitution industrialisation
(ISI) to export-led growth and what the government and international organisations called ‘Agriculture of
Change’ in the early 1980s. A combination of an active state, stable democracy, high social investment and
support for small and medium firms, including cooperatives, resulted in higher economic growth and better
gender and income distribution than in neighbouring countries. Since 1990, Costa Rica accelerated trade
liberalisation, foreign direct investment (FDI), and non-traditional agricultural exports (NTAEs) through
agricultural conversion programmes. Since the early 1990s new patterns of agricultural development have
promoted the regional specialisation of agricultural production. The new strategy shaped agriculture and rural
development in different regions and cantons creating opportunities and challenges for small famers and rural
inhabitants.
Latin America's new dependencies in a diversified world
Edme Dominguez Reyes
Universidad de Gotemburgo, Suecia; edme.dominguez@gu.se
América latina esta en un periodo de reorientación de sus relaciones exteriores. De ser una región
prácticamente dominada por la hegemonía norteamericana, sobre todo en el caso de Centroamérica y México
y con una gran influencia de la Unión Europea en el caso del Cono Sur se empieza a hablar cada vez con
mayor insistencia de la presencia asiática en la región. Sin embargo, debido al enorme incremento de las
relaciones comerciales con China lo que se plantea es un nuevo tipo de dependencia que se hace sentir en la
actual criris económica que atraviezan gran parte de los paísies del cono sur, ya acostumbrados a mandar gran
parte de su produccion mineral o agroexportadora al gigante asiatico. Que implica esta nueva reorientada
dependencia para el futuro economico de la region?. Esta ponencia discute esta situación y sus implicaciones.
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The renewal of US-led “competitive liberalization” and its consequences for regional cooperation
and blocs in the Western Hemisphere
Isidro Morales Moreno 1 , Isidro Morales Moreno 2
1
Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública. Tecnológico de Monterrey, México; 2 Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación
Pública. Tecnológico de Monterrey. Mexico; isidro.morales@itesm.mx
US-led "Competitive liberalization" reached momentum in 2005, when the FTAA was about to be signed. Those
negotiations were derailed by the opposition of Brazil. Once hemispheric and multilateral trade negotiations
under the WTO came to an impasse, alternative models of regional cooperation proliferated in the Americas,
such as Venezuela-led ALBA or Brazil-led UNASUR. Though the “competitive liberalization” formula has not the
strength and legitimacy that it used to have before the failure of the FTAA, the south-south cooperation
mechanisms never succeeded in building an alternative to the US proposal, especially in the economic front.
Notwithstanding, the second term of the Obama administration was successful to re-launch America’s trade
diplomacy in two new regional fronts: Asia Pacific and Europe. This presentation shall explore what is at stake
in the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership (TTP). What will the consequences be of the renewal of US trade
diplomacy for regional cooperation and blocs in the Western Hemisphere?.
PROGRAMA
PROGRAMA OFICIAL DEL VIII CONGRESO DEL CONSEJO EUROPEO DE INVESTIGACIONES SOBRE AMÉRICA LATINA (CEISAL)
UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA, JUNIO-JULIO DE 2016