UID:
almahu_9949630174402882
Format:
1 online resource (332 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Content:
This book analyses three dimensions of the reconfiguration of European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) relations: The international context; the EU member states' foreign policies towards Latin America, and key issues in the EU-LAC agenda.
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Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- The Redefinition of the EU Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Introductory Discussion -- Changing circumstances and the need for a profound debate on EU-LAC relations -- The book ahead -- Part I Foreign Policies and Contextual Factors Moulding EU-LAC Relations -- Spanish Foreign Policy Towards Latin America: Time for Redefinition? -- Introduction1 -- A brief history of Spanish foreign policy towards Latin America -- Ibero-American Summits -- Current challenges and possibilities of Spanish foreign policy towards Latin America -- Conclusions and room for redefinition -- The Portuguese Foreign Policy Towards Latin America: A Yo-Yo Approach1 -- The foreign policy's axes of the democratic Portugal -- Latin America in Portuguese foreign policy (2000-2021): Words and deeds -- The Portuguese presidencies of the EU Council -- Portugal and Latin America: Diplomacy, economy and culture as needed -- Relations Between Germany and Latin America Through Energy Partnerships -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- An opportunity for German foreign energy policy in the region -- Germany and Brazil -- Germany and Mexico -- Germany and Chile -- Conclusions -- Identity and International Relations: Italian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America -- Italy-Latin America relations from the 19th century to the fascist period -- From the post-World War II years to the end of the 20th century -- Italy and Latin America in the 21st century -- Conclusions -- Brexit, UK and Latin America -- Introduction -- UK within EU Latin American policies -- UK Latin American policies pre-Brexit -- Trade continuation agreements: Brexit and the need to recast relations with Latin America.
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"The more things change": Global Britain and the future of UK-Latin America relations -- Conclusion -- Brazil-EU Relations: Driver, Enabler or Negotiator for Interregionalism? -- Introduction: EU-Brazil relations across history -- From interregional to bilateral relations -- The foreign policy of Brazilian Presidents and its impact on the role of Brazil in the EU's relations with the region -- Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula): 2003-2010 -- Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) -- Michel Temer (2016-2018) -- Jair Messias Bolsonaro (2019-2022) -- Conclusion -- Autonomy as a Foreign Policy Objective: Perspectives from Europe and Latin America -- Introduction -- The current situation of the world under a paradigm of complex interdependence -- Autonomy as a concept: European understanding -- Autonomy in Latin America -- Towards a new definition of autonomy for Latin America? -- Conclusions -- EU-LAC Relations in Times of US-China Competition -- Introduction -- The international structure in dispute -- Wake-up calls to strengthen autonomy: Old and new dependencies -- EU-LAC bi-regional cooperation to avoid international irrelevance -- Conclusion -- The Challenges of Linking with Latin America and the Caribbean Under Three Crises -- The challenges of three simultaneous crises -- The reality of regional processes: Progress, setbacks, and stagnation -- MERCOSUR -- UNASUR -- Pacific Alliance -- Andean Community of Nations (CAN) -- CELAC -- Linking Latin America and the Caribbean with the European Union -- Part II A Reinvigorated Agenda for EU-Latin America Relations -- Proposals for a Functional EU-LAC Agenda, with an Underpinning Political Design -- Digitalization -- Energy systems -- Entrepreneurship and SMEs -- Conclusion -- Rethinking EU-CELAC Interregionalism in the Digital World: Techplomacy as a Foreign Policy Instrument for Global Tech Governance -- Introduction.
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EU-CELAC and digital transition -- Big tech companies, cyberspace and techplomacy -- EU-CELAC cooperation and values in a broader scenario -- Conclusions -- Decentralising Cooperation Through Regional Policy Dialogues: Exportation of the European Smart Specialization Strategy to High- and Middle-Income Latin American Countries -- Introduction -- Translating a policy idea into different national contexts -- Exporting EC regional policy to Latin America -- Bilateral and Bi-regional EU-LAC cooperation in smart specialisation -- Adaptation of the European smart specialisation strategy in Latin America -- Decentralised cooperation through Regional Policy Dialogues -- Action for Climate and Life in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean - A Synoptic Vision -- Introduction -- Climate change and biodiversity -- Climate action -- Terrestrial ecosystem life -- Situation in the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean -- SDG 13 and SDG 15 in EU-LAC bi-regional cooperation -- Final considerations -- The Ecological and Social Transition: An Approach from the Context of the European Union -- Introduction: The origin of the concept "ecological and social transition" -- The European perspective: The European Green Deal -- The European perspective: The question of implementation -- A cultural change for an environmental turn -- Conclusion -- Towards Forward-Looking Migration Governance: The Global Compact on Migration from a Bi-regional Perspective -- The global migration governance regimes -- The 2030 Agenda and the UN Global Compact on Migration -- Climate migration and capacity-building mechanism: The United Nations Network on Migration -- Regional mechanisms on migration cooperation in Latin America: The informal dialogues on migration -- South America region.
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Migration in the context of climate impacts: non-binding regional mechanisms on the protection of people displaced across borders -- Supporting legal pathways for regular migration: Temporary protection for Venezuelan migrants -- Mesoamerica region -- The EU pact on migration and asylum: Between a regional migration governance and migration pragmatism -- "Instrumentalisation" of irregular migration by State actors -- The forced displacement crisis in 2022: Temporary protection for displaced Ukrainians -- Reinforcing "legal pathways" for regular migration: Some steps -- Conclusions -- Europe in Chile: Its Influence on the New Constitutional Design -- Background -- European role in and impact on the Convention -- Conclusions -- Region-to-Region Approach: The EU and the Pacific Alliance -- Introduction -- The PA and the EU: A comparative theoretical and institutional analysis -- The co-constitution of agent-structure and collective identity building -- Emergent flexibility in action: Cross-regional mechanisms between the Pacific Alliance and the European Union -- Conclusions -- Context, Foreign Policies, Tools and Ideas: Concluding Remarks on a Continuous Reconfiguration of the EU-LAC Relation -- Two shifts in empirical observation and theoretical thinking -- Four lessons drawn from the encounter of individual foreign policies and their context -- A humble decalogue for EU-LAC relations and the bi-regional agenda.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-631-90916-0
Language:
English
