América Latina, el desafío de un nuevo modelo de inserción internacional

Abstract

The international system is at a historic moment of change and readjustment. The global trend seems to show that the near future will be marked by the action of great powers in confrontation, although connected through a complex network of commercial, technological and social links. The other actors constituted in large regional blocs, in turn, will seek to mark their autonomy to act independently according to their particular interests. In this period of change and readjustment of the international system, Latin America faces many challenges. The first is to define its own international presence and the strategy for acting and defending its interests in different areas. This document analyses the opportunities and risks of the region in a period of change or “interregnum”; the tension between its security challenges and international security policy; the economic and strategic perspectives of its natural wealth; access to investment and international credit and, finally, its role in the global agenda of sustainability and adaptation to climate change.