La participación de América Latina en el sistema económico internacional de la postguerra

Abstract

The international economic institutionality is strongly conditioned by political factors. This paper identifies and describes the international political processes that, since before World War II, crystallized in a basic institutional arrangement, fundamentally limited to the Western powers, under the leadership of the United States as the dominant power. Subsequently, the insertion of Latin America within the international post-war system is examined, focusing especially on the conditioning factors of the political-social and external order of the international participation of the region, with emphasis on the period from 1945 to 1960. Both tasks are essential to locate correctly the role of Latin American states in the gestation and functioning of the international economic-political system of the last thirty years, and for the subsequent analysis of national roles in international economic organizations.