The Pacific Alliance in the Current South American Regionalism

This article analyses the construction process of the Pacific Alliance from two different perspectives based upon considerations suggested by the academic literature and the information of official documents consulted by the authors. The first perspective considers the pa as a form of open regionalism related to the concepts that served as the foundation to establish regional integration processes at the end of the xx century, which differs from the current structures of regionalism (post-hegemonic, post-liberal). The second one deals with the change of meaning generated by this concept in the integration process in general and in the current form of South American regionalism; in the definition of its own integration group; and the application of the methodology of comparative regionalism to promote the anticipated success of this regional process.