ABSTRACT
This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations: Latin America and Europe.
Relations between Latin America and Europe have been interpreted generally in the social sciences as synonyms of interstate relations. However, although States remain the most important actor in the geopolitical scene, they have been deeply reconfigured in recent decades, impacted by transnational dynamics, politics and spaces. This book highlights interregional relations and transnational dynamics between Latin America and Europe from a critical geopolitics perspective, promoting a new look for interregional relations which encompasses international cooperation and development, global policies, borders, inequalities and social movements. It brings attention to the relevance of interregionalism in the current geopolitical reconfiguration of the world system, but also argues for systematic inclusion of relevant new social actors and imaginaries in this traditional sphere of states. These social actors, particularly social movements and practices of contestation, are developing not only "international" bonds but a new "transnational" field, where networks defy traditional territorial orders.
This volume seeks to generate a new discussion among scholars of geopolitics, international relations, social theory and social movement studies by encouraging a development of an interregional and transnational perspective of the two regions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Latin America and Europe in the contemporary world-system
chapter 1|26 pages
Interventionism, invasiveness and the geopolitics of the imperial
part II|82 pages
Geopolitical imaginaries and socio-territorial orders in Latin America and Europe
chapter 4|19 pages
European models, Latin American cases
chapter 6|14 pages
Geopolitical narratives of an “accommodating” state in the face of “low geopolitics”
chapter 7|14 pages
Beyond the “lettered border”
chapter 8|14 pages
Beyond a regional gaze?
part III|53 pages
(Inter)regionalism from below