On 1 July 2016 the presidents of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru celebrated the 11th Summit of the Pacific Alliance (PA) in Puerto Varas, Chile. The PA members quite successfully practise a kind of joint “nation-branding” to promote trade and investment and to enhance their international status…
The establishment of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in 2008 saw regional integration in South America, which had previously pursued mainly economic objectives, extended to new policy areas. Since the turn of the millennium, impulses from the social policy initiatives of many South…
