South America and the pandemic
a portrait of the crisis of regionalism
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https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.118556Keywords:
Regionalism, Pandemic, Latin AmericaAbstract
South America was surprised by the COVID-19 pandemic at difficult times, characterized by an economic crisis, polarization, and political divergences.
Regional governance is weakened, there are no leaderships or consensus. The paper aims to analyze the responses to pandemic crisis by the
governments of the region. It focuses on identifying them by differentiating between responses collectively framed in regional strategies, and
unilateral, with a predominance of the last ones. The main argument is that the reaction to the crisis may have had a regional rather than a unilateral
undertone. However, the previously weakened regional governance affected the agenda, without being able to provide coordinated responses to the
pandemic crisis, the region was left in a state of unprecedented vulnerability. The article begins by contextualizing the crisis of regional governance,
subsequently, it contrasts and identifying the responses to the pandemic given by the regional institutions. To do that, a content analysis is made using
as sources Mercosur´s and Pacific Alliance´s official documents; the analysis evidenced the deficit of the regional governance in South America to
manage the pandemic crisis and the unilateral conjunctural responses to the crisis.
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