Regionalism, Development and the Post-Commodities Boom in South America

Ernesto Vivares is Professor at the Department of International Studies and Communication at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador (FLACSO), Ecuador. His research interests include the international political economy of development, inequality and conflict, the Latin American region and global order. Ernesto teaches in the fields of IPE, regionalism, globalization and methodological research. He previously edited Exploring the New South American Regionalism (NSAR) (2016).

• Chapter 1. The IPE Puzzle of Regional Inequality, Political Instability and Global Insertion of South America.- Chapter 2. Is Latin America’s rise of the middle classes lasting or temporary? Evidence from Ecuador.- Chapter 3. Latin America and South America (re)primarization.- Chapter 4. The Impact of China on South America Political and Economic Development.- Chapter 5. The Changing Problem of Regional Development Finance in Latin America.- Chapter 6. South America: Trade and Integration in the New Global Network.- Chapter 7. Energy Integration in South America and Global Geopolitics.- Chapter 8. Productive Integration in South America and its Insertion into Global Value Chains. The Automotive Industry.- Chapter 9. The Regional political Economy of Knowledge and Environment.- Chapter 10. Cities in South American Development: Bogota, Lima, Quito and Santiago in regional frame.- Chapter 11.Global and Regional Political Economy of Migration.- Chapter 12. Organized Crime, Security and Regionalism: The Governance of TOC in Latin America.- Chapter 13. South Regionalisms: A shift or the Return of Economic Integration?.- Chapter 14. Africa: Clues about the Tendencies of the Global South.- Chapter 15. Conclusions.