Preface; Olivier Dabène Introduction: Regional integration: Linking Past and Present; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and José Briceño Ruiz PART I: THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES 1. Geopolitics and Integration: a South American Perspective; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano 2. Regional Integration in the Inside Trends of Latin American Dependency Thinking; Ángel M. Casas-Gragea PART II: SUB-REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 3. The Caribbean: Regional Unity in a Context of Diversity; José Briceño Ruiz 4. Central America: in Search of Lost Unity; Rodrigo Páez Montalbán 5. The Andes: a Long Tradition of Thought and Practice about Regional Integration; José Briceño Ruiz PART III: COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES 6. Latin American Integration: a Mexican Perspective; Mario Vázquez Olivera and Fabián Campos Hernández 7. Latin American Integration: a Brazilian View; Clodoaldo Bueno, Tullo Vigevani and Haroldo Ramanzini Júnior 8. The Political Economy of Regional Integration in Argentina: a Long and Winding Road; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and Miguel Ángel Barrios Conclusion: About the Resilience of Latin American Regionalism; Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and José Briceño Ruiz