UNASUR AND PROSUR:

A COMPARED PERSPECTIVE OF CHANGES IN SOUTH AMERICAN REGIONALISM

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the journey of South American regionalism from the trajectory of the Regional Organizations UNASUR and PROSUR, since the understanding of the creation, performance and replacement of the first one in relation to the second one symbolizes a remarkable reflection of the political change in the subcontinent. In view of this, the contrast of the political and cooperative relationship of understandings and disagreements between the countries of South America is reflected in the configuration of the organizations addressed in this study. Thus, from the exposure of the fall of the promising and diversified UNASUR in favor of the uncertain and unstructured PROSUR, the result is the contemplation of the results of regional organization from a conservative wave that emerged in a context of internal changes and political crises in South America.