The Politics of Technical Assistance in Regional Integration Processes: Mesoamerican Insights
This paper analyses a regional integration process that includes Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Panama. Formally launched in 2001 as the Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP) with a strong commitment to sustainable development and safeguarding the e...
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| description | This paper analyses a regional integration process that includes Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Panama. Formally launched in 2001 as the Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP) with a strong commitment to sustainable development and safeguarding the environmental dimension of the regionalisation process, its current version, renamed the Mesoamerican Project (Proyecto Mesoamérica, PM), does not have the same orientation or goals. This paper addresses two questions: a) which stakeholders and discourses shaped the regional integration’s environmental policy process during its different phases? and b) how have the PPP and PM contributed to the environmental governance of the region? The findings suggest that the process has been characterised by strong intervention on the part of supra-national stakeholders that have prioritised liberalisation over the sustainable development agenda for 15 years, weakening regional environmental agencies’ ability to produce warrants to reduce the environmental impacts of regionalisation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-acc0ea4846154fbf88a36bde139dbbb72025-08-20T02:58:31ZengUniversidad de Zaragoza, Cátedra de Solidaridad y Ciudadanía GlobalRevista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo2254-20352254-20352016-05-0151630The Politics of Technical Assistance in Regional Integration Processes: Mesoamerican InsightsAlmaguer-Kalixto, P. E.This paper analyses a regional integration process that includes Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Panama. Formally launched in 2001 as the Puebla-Panama Plan (PPP) with a strong commitment to sustainable development and safeguarding the environmental dimension of the regionalisation process, its current version, renamed the Mesoamerican Project (Proyecto Mesoamérica, PM), does not have the same orientation or goals. This paper addresses two questions: a) which stakeholders and discourses shaped the regional integration’s environmental policy process during its different phases? and b) how have the PPP and PM contributed to the environmental governance of the region? The findings suggest that the process has been characterised by strong intervention on the part of supra-national stakeholders that have prioritised liberalisation over the sustainable development agenda for 15 years, weakening regional environmental agencies’ ability to produce warrants to reduce the environmental impacts of regionalisation.http://ried.unizar.es/index.php/revista/article/viewFile/192/80regional integrationenvironmental policy processMesoamerican ProjectSouthSouth Cooperationsustainable development |
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| title | The Politics of Technical Assistance in Regional Integration Processes: Mesoamerican Insights |
| title_full | The Politics of Technical Assistance in Regional Integration Processes: Mesoamerican Insights |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Politics of Technical Assistance in Regional Integration Processes: Mesoamerican Insights |
| title_short | The Politics of Technical Assistance in Regional Integration Processes: Mesoamerican Insights |
| title_sort | politics of technical assistance in regional integration processes mesoamerican insights |
| topic | regional integration environmental policy process Mesoamerican Project SouthSouth Cooperation sustainable development |
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