How regional organizations cope with recurrent stress: the case of South America

Barely 15 years after the 2008 financial crisis and in a context of rising nationalism, regional organizations are facing multiple challenges. This article introduces an analytical framework that systematizes stressors and identifies characteristics that might help regional organizations to cope wit...

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Published in:Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional 2021-01, Vol.64 (2)
Main Authors: Nolte, Detlef, Weiffen, Brigitte
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cooperation
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
disintegration
Economic crisis
Euroscepticism
Ideology
International organizations
International relations
Nationalism
Pandemics
Political crises
Political leadership
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Populism
Psychological models
Recurrent
Regional organizations
Regionalism
Regions
Resilience
South America
Stress
Stress management
Trends
Venezuelan crisis
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Summary:Barely 15 years after the 2008 financial crisis and in a context of rising nationalism, regional organizations are facing multiple challenges. This article introduces an analytical framework that systematizes stressors and identifies characteristics that might help regional organizations to cope with stress. It draws on psychological models of how individuals cope with stress to explore how regional organizations grapple with a sequence of stress situations. Stress factors can aggravate pre-existing problems in regionalism and contribute to regional disintegration. But they can also trigger counter-reactions and strengthen the resilience of regionalism. To substantiate our arguments, we study the repercussions of two recent crises for South American regionalism: the political crisis in Venezuela and the Covid-19 pandemic.
ISSN:0034-7329
1983-3121
1983-3121
DOI:10.1590/0034-7329202100206