An Integration that Does Not Integrate: A Look at the Energy Experience at Unasur

Given the strategic importance of energy in increasing productivity and improving the standard of living of a society; In recent years, integration projects in South America have incorporated this resource as an essential element for development. In fact, with the signing of the Unasur constitution...

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Autor: Briones, Yessenia Paola
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Comentario Internacional
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/4221
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/comentario/article/view/4221
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Integración
Unasur
infraestructura energética
cooperación bilateral
intergubernamentalismo
política
integration
intergovernmentalism
energy infrastructure
bilateral cooperation
politics
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Sumario:Given the strategic importance of energy in increasing productivity and improving the standard of living of a society; In recent years, integration projects in South America have incorporated this resource as an essential element for development. In fact, with the signing of the Unasur constitution treaty, in 2008, a regional strategy began with a view to institutionalizing the energy regime to involve all countries that are already participants in this scheme. However, the region has not been able to move from official statements to policy implementation. Thus, in this article it is argued that there are three obstacles that converge and persist in South American regionalism: institutional flexibility, heterogeneity in the margins of agency and overlapping of regional organizations. Likewise, within the framework of the dissolution of Unasur, some perspectives are offered for the energy project in the region.