ABSTRACT
In the 1990s, following the success of the Esquipulas process to end the civil wars, the governments of the region focused their attention on rebuilding and re-conceptualising Central American integration. This chapter looks at this process of rebuilding integration under SICA as a result of strategies pursued by the states in order to promote both regional co-operation and the insertion of the region into the world economy. In this chapter, three contentions are advanced:
1. That the rebuilding of regionalism in the 1990s and onwards refl ects a compromise between the desire of the governments to pursue the historical project of integration and the need to respond to the pressure and stimulus brought about by globalisation.
