Cambio y continuidad : el Pacto Andino en la historia contemporánea

Authors

  • Claudio Veliz Director Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This paper seeks to determine the factors of change and continuity that modify, guide, attenuate, or revitalize, the political and economic activity of the countries that signed the Cartagena Agreement. We suggest that there are factors in our contemporary situation classified as relative continuities in our historical development and that they could acquire very great importance at this time by reinforcing and invigorating certain factors of change that would otherwise have a more attenuated effect. We propose, with a certain hesitation that is difficult to avoid, that the Andean Pact is in a situation of unparalleled opportunity in the contemporary world, both due to the continuities that back it up, and due to the nature of the domestic and external changes that modify it.

Keywords:

Andean Pact, Cartagena Agreement, South America, Integration, Latin America

Author Biography

Claudio Veliz, Director Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

Director del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad de Chile desde su fundación en 1966; posee el grado de Ph. D. historia económica de la Universidad de Londres. Es miembro de  Royal Historical Society y entre sus obras se cuentan, Historia de la Marina Mercante de Chile, Santiago, 1961, (Ed.); Obstacles to change in Latin America, Oxford University Press. 1965. (Ed.); The politics of conformity in Latin America, Oxford University Press. 1967. Durante el período 1962-1966, ocupó el cargo de Senior Research Fellow en el Royal Institute of International Affairs, de Londres. Actualmente ocupa además la cátedra de Política Internacional en la Academia de Guerra de Chile.