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[email protected] Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais Brasil Kleinschmidt, Jochen; Gallego Pérez, Pablo Differentiation theory and the ontologies of regionalism in Latin America Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, vol. 60, núm. 1, 2017, pp. 1-21 Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais Brasília, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=35849807016 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Differentiation theory and the ontologies of regionalism in Latin America https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-73292017001018 Rev. Bras. Polít. Int., 60(1): e017, 2017 Revista Brasileira de Abstract Política Internacional In this article, we argue that conventional understandings of regional ISSN 1983-3121 integration based on neo-functionalism, hitherto often used to describe http://www.scielo.br/rbpi the diverse projects of Latin American regionalism, are of limited utility in that context. Rather than representing processes of economic or political unification, the various regionalisms could be understood more productively Jochen Kleinschmidt Universidad del Rosario, Facultad de as a reaction to the crisis in legitimacy that social orders in the region have Ciencias Políticas, Bogota, Colombia experienced under the conditions of globalized modernity. We then deploy (
[email protected]) an understanding of regionalism derived from sociological differentiation ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0730-6494 theory in order to advance this argument. Pablo Gallego Pérez Keywords: Differentiation Theory; Regional Integration; International Relations Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Theory; Latin America; Regionalism; World Society.