Ordem Internacional e Multilateralismo

Globalisation, Argentina and Mercosul, por Aldo Ferrer

In Argentina, positive signals of economic growth and price stability, together with an increase in unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, currently coexist. Mercosul, in turn, is confronting increasing difficulties and uncertainties. There is a connecting link that explains those conflicting tendencies, namely, the quality of responses to the challenges and opportunities of globalisation. Bearing this in mind, this chapter makes a brief analysis of Argentina’s behaviour with reference to globalisation, and the Mercosul situation. In order to do this, it first identifies certain relevant elements of the global order.