Regional and International Cooperation in South America After COVID

Melisa Deciancio is Senior Fellow Researcher at the University of Münster and Research Fellow at the National Scientific and Research Council of Argentina, based in the Department of International Relations at FLACSO Argentina. Cintia Quiliconi is Associate Professor at the International Studies and Communication Department of the Latin American School of Social Sciences FLACSO-Ecuador and senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.

1. Introduction: South American Cooperation: Regional and International Challenges in the Post-Pandemic, 2. Your Regionalism and Mine: The United States and South American Cooperation in the Global Pandemic, 3. China’s BRI extension to South America: Challenges and Opportunities for the Regional Order in the Post-pandemic, 4. Regional and interregional relations between EU and South America: Weathering the COVID-19 storm?, 5. From Regional Leader to Regional Antagonist: Bolsonaro’s anti-South American stance during COVID-19 pandemic, 6. The Venezuelan Connection: The Crisis of South American Regionalism and Western Hemispheric Order Upheaval, 7. From UNASUR to PROSUR: Institutional Challenges to Consolidate Regional Cooperation, 8. Regional Cooperation in health: Challenges and Setbacks in the Pandemic, 9. South America under the pendulum: bilateralism, intermestic security and the return of old practices, 10. The rise and fall of IIRSA and the prospects for regional infrastructure integration in the post-pandemic, 11. Social Movements, care crisis and new opportunities for regional cooperation: the regional integration of female domestic paid workers in Latin America, 12. Social Protests in the Andean Region: Towards New State Forms, 13. Every Man for Himself! The Regional Responses to the Venezuelan Exodus During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 14. Conclusions: Re-thinking regional cooperation for the Post-Pandemic