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On the Road to Southern Cone Economic Integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jeffrey Cason
Jeffrey Cason*
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Middlebury College
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Abstract

The integration process as developed in MERCOSUR has been largely a success, albeit led (and often aggravated) by Brazil. Three cases illustrate Brazil’s dominant role: the dispute over the automobile regime that began in 1995, the import-financing conflict of 1997, and the recent negotiations over the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Brazil’s behavior pattern does not threaten MERCOSUR’s stability, however, or the all-but-irreversible progress of regional integration.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , Spring 2000 , pp. 23 - 42
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Copyright © University of Miami 2000

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