The Dilemmas of the South American Integration Project
Year: 2021

This chapter analyzes the Unasur’s role as mediator in internal crisis of Bolivia (2008) and Ecuador (2010), and the inter-state conflicts of Colombia-Ecuador (2008) and Colombia-Venezuela (2009 and 2010). Likewise, its institutional entrepreneurship in the collective defense of democracy with the Georgetown Protocol of 2010 and, its counter-balance role during the US-Colombian military Agreement crisis (2009), which was a starting point for the creation of the South American Defence Council (SA