The Redefinition of the EU Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Author: Gardini, Gian Luca.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 pages)

This book analyses three dimensions of the reconfiguration of European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) relations: The international context; the EU member states' foreign policies towards Latin America, and key issues in the EU-LAC agenda.

Table of Contents

• Cover
• HalfTitle
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• The Redefinition of the EU Presence in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Introductory Discussion
• Changing circumstances and the need for a profound debate on EU-LAC relations
• The book ahead
• Part I Foreign Policies and Contextual Factors Moulding EU-LAC Relations
• Spanish Foreign Policy Towards Latin America: Time for Redefinition?
• Introduction1
• A brief history of Spanish foreign policy towards Latin America
• Ibero-American Summits
• Current challenges and possibilities of Spanish foreign policy towards Latin America
• Conclusions and room for redefinition
• The Portuguese Foreign Policy Towards Latin America:  A Yo-Yo Approach1
• The foreign policy's axes of the democratic Portugal
• Latin America in Portuguese foreign policy (2000-2021):  Words and deeds
• The Portuguese presidencies of the EU Council
• Portugal and Latin America: Diplomacy, economy and culture as needed
• Relations Between Germany and Latin America Through Energy Partnerships
• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• An opportunity for German foreign energy policy in the region
• Germany and Brazil
• Germany and Mexico
• Germany and Chile
• Conclusions
• Identity and International Relations: Italian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America
• Italy-Latin America relations from the 19th century to the fascist period
• From the post-World War II years to the end of the 20th century
• Italy and Latin America in the 21st century
• Conclusions
• Brexit, UK and Latin America
• Introduction
• UK within EU Latin American policies
• UK Latin American policies pre-Brexit
• Trade continuation agreements: Brexit and the need to recast relations with Latin America.
• "The more things change": Global Britain and the future of UK-Latin America relations
• Conclusion
• Brazil-EU Relations: Driver, Enabler or Negotiator for Interregionalism?
• Introduction: EU-Brazil relations across history
• From interregional to bilateral relations
• The foreign policy of Brazilian Presidents and its impact on the role of Brazil in the EU's relations with the region
• Luis Inácio da Silva (Lula): 2003-2010
• Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016)
• Michel Temer (2016-2018)
• Jair Messias Bolsonaro (2019-2022)
• Conclusion
• Autonomy as a Foreign Policy Objective: Perspectives from Europe and Latin America
• Introduction
• The current situation of the world under a paradigm of complex interdependence
• Autonomy as a concept: European understanding
• Autonomy in Latin America
• Towards a new definition of autonomy for Latin America?
• Conclusions
• EU-LAC Relations in Times of US-China Competition
• Introduction
• The international structure in dispute
• Wake-up calls to strengthen autonomy: Old and new dependencies
• EU-LAC bi-regional cooperation to avoid international irrelevance
• Conclusion
• The Challenges of Linking with Latin America and the Caribbean Under Three Crises
• The challenges of three simultaneous crises
• The reality of regional processes: Progress, setbacks, and stagnation
• MERCOSUR
• UNASUR
• Pacific Alliance
• Andean Community of Nations (CAN)
• CELAC
• Linking Latin America and the Caribbean with the European Union
• Part II A Reinvigorated Agenda for EU-Latin America Relations
• Proposals for a Functional EU-LAC Agenda, with an Underpinning Political Design
• Digitalization
• Energy systems
• Entrepreneurship and SMEs
• Conclusion
• Rethinking EU-CELAC Interregionalism in the Digital World: Techplomacy as a Foreign Policy Instrument for Global Tech Governance
• Introduction.
• EU-CELAC and digital transition
• Big tech companies, cyberspace and techplomacy
• EU-CELAC cooperation and values in a broader scenario
• Conclusions
• Decentralising Cooperation Through Regional Policy Dialogues: Exportation of the European Smart Specialization Strategy to High- and Middle-Income Latin American Countries
• Introduction
• Translating a policy idea into different national contexts
• Exporting EC regional policy to Latin America
• Bilateral and Bi-regional EU-LAC cooperation in smart specialisation
• Adaptation of the European smart specialisation strategy in Latin America
• Decentralised cooperation through Regional Policy Dialogues
• Action for Climate and Life in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Sustainable Development Goals in the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean - A Synoptic Vision
• Introduction
• Climate change and biodiversity
• Climate action
• Terrestrial ecosystem life
• Situation in the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean
• SDG 13 and SDG 15 in EU-LAC bi-regional cooperation
• Final considerations
• The Ecological and Social Transition: An Approach from the Context of the European Union
• Introduction: The origin of the concept "ecological and social transition"
• The European perspective: The European Green Deal
• The European perspective: The question of implementation
• A cultural change for an environmental turn
• Conclusion
• Towards Forward-Looking Migration Governance: The Global Compact on Migration from a Bi-regional Perspective
• The global migration governance regimes
• The 2030 Agenda and the UN Global Compact on Migration
• Climate migration and capacity-building mechanism: The United Nations Network on Migration
• Regional mechanisms on migration cooperation in Latin America: The informal dialogues on migration
• South America region.
• Migration in the context of climate impacts: non-binding regional mechanisms on the protection of people displaced across borders
• Supporting legal pathways for regular migration: Temporary protection for Venezuelan migrants
• Mesoamerica region
• The EU pact on migration and asylum: Between a regional migration governance and migration pragmatism
• "Instrumentalisation" of irregular migration by State actors
• The forced displacement crisis in 2022: Temporary protection for displaced Ukrainians
• Reinforcing "legal pathways" for regular migration: Some steps
• Conclusions
• Europe in Chile: Its Influence on the New Constitutional Design
• Background
• European role in and impact on the Convention
• Conclusions
• Region-to-Region Approach: The EU and the Pacific Alliance
• Introduction
• The PA and the EU: A comparative theoretical and institutional analysis
• The co-constitution of agent-structure and collective identity building
• Emergent flexibility in action: Cross-regional mechanisms between the Pacific Alliance and the European Union
• Conclusions
• Context, Foreign Policies, Tools and Ideas: Concluding Remarks on a Continuous Reconfiguration of the EU-LAC Relation
• Two shifts in empirical observation and theoretical thinking
• Four lessons drawn from the encounter of individual foreign policies and their context
• A humble decalogue for EU-LAC relations and the bi-regional agenda.