ABSTRACT
The last few years have witnessed an increasing level of interaction between the regions of East Asia and Latin America.2 This particular phenomenon has been part of a wider intensification of the demarcation, expansion and overall interactions between different regions in the world. According to Dent (2008: 6), ‘regionalism is one of the key defining features of the international system’ as ‘we live in “a world of regions”; an international system increasingly defined by interactions between regions and regional powers’. Processes of regionalism and regionalization and the consequent interest in studying the expression of such international phenomena have begun to expand since the early 1990s, after the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union.
