STRUCTURALISM AND NEOSTRUCTURALISM: OLD QUESTIONS, NEW CHALLENGES

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to resume the Latin American structuralist approach from the neo-structuralism approach to delineate an analytical framework able to aggregate the main foundations and establish a theoretical core that articulates its main concept. We recover the main arguments for the decline of the structuralist approach, and a parallel is established between the predecessor neo-structuralism with structuralism and neoliberalism. Next, we present the definition of an analytic framework with key fundamentals. Focused on the concept of systemic competitiveness and virtuous cycle, neo-structuralism define a strategy to achieve the "high road" of globalization. Conclusions highlight that this approach considers the process of globalization as inevitable, but that her engagement is conditional on the policy.