Abstract
Autore:
Vassalli, Agudelo Taborda, Guarnizio Useche
Titolo:
"La cooperazione tra Unione Europea e America Latina 2007-2013"
This article presents an analysis of the cooperation strategy of the European Union with Latin America for the period 2007-2013. The importance of this study lies in the fact that the period in question coincides with two opposite phenomena that defy cooperation between the two regions: on the one hand, the financial crises (strongly affecting industrialized economies); on the other hand the so-called rise of the South. Furthermore, during this period major reforms to the European External Action Service were introduced, in an attempt to consolidate a real Common Foreign and Security Policy. At the global level, this period corresponds to the final key stage for the achievement of the Milllenium Development Goals (MDGs, 2015).
The study, conducted mainly from a the Latin-American perspective, is based on the documents produced by several Latin-American institutions and organizations, e.g. the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), the Latin American Association of Development Organizations (ALOP), and the Latin-American School of Cooperation and Development (ELACID) of the University San Buenaventura of Cartagena and the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla (Colombia), in partnership with the University of Pavia (Italy). The EU perspective is captured mainly through the analysis of European Commission documents and OECD data.
