State, Development and Regional Integration in the MERCOSUR countries. Dynamics and balance of the post-neoliberal cycle (2003-2015)

Abstract

The post-neoliberal period that in Latin America stretched from the beginning of the 21st century for more than one decade, shows clear signs of exhaustion and a troubling crisis of alternatives. The years of reflux of thought and neo-liberal policies crossed almost all Latin American countries, where took place important economic and political processes that, however, impose a balance and critical analysis of their depth and of the scope of a reversal of policies and processes of the neoliberal period. From 2015 onwards we are witnessing the emergence of antagonistic political regimes to the political experiences and the distributive ideology associated with the post-neoliberal period. In this work we review the major political experiences associated with the changes in the dynamics of the accumulation of capital and the logic of intervention of the State in MERCOSUR countries.