South American regionalism?

Abstract

At the beginning of twenty-first century there was a renewed interest about building of regional projects and about their study. One of the projects that drew attention it can be mentioned the South American process that is framed in the region South America for the first time. The question that guides this work is, to what extent did the South American Project constitute a process of regional building? This regarding that it has been pretended construct an image of UNASUR as an ideological instrument, so justifying its dismantling and its subsequent creation of Foro para el Progreso de América del Sur (PROSUR). The documents reviewed for this investigation show that this regional Project constituted abroad process. Therefore, this did not reduce to a formal organization. This was featured by an interaction between ideal and material elements before formal organization. This can be studied from a critical perspective that also permits to approach to construction and destruction of a region from inside and outside. Last years it has taken place an internal destruction.