La nueva agenda diplomática y comercial México-Centroamérica: el Proyecto Mesoamérica
- Autores: Aribel Contreras Suárez
- Directores de la Tesis: Montserrat Sansalvadó Tribó (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2015
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Maria Ester Subirà Loberas (presid.), Xavier Llinàs Audet (secret.), Joan Carles Suari Aniorte (voc.)
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
This doctoral thesis is focused on what nowadays is known as the Mesoamerica Project (MP). The Integration and Development Mesoamerica Project arises due to the need not only to the regional integration but also to the lack of solutions to the regional problems.It is important to considerar that at the beginning of this research the member states were only Mexico (MX) and Central America (CA); but Colombia and Dominican Republic (DR) became new members of it. So, we can say that if this research will start today, its title will be "The New Diplomatic and Trade Agenda of the Mesoamerica Project". Nevertheless this research is focused in MEX and CA with some comments related to these two new members but their diplomatic and trade relationships are not mentioned. The principal problem analyzed is that instead of having bilateral or regional free trade agreements and dispersed cooperation mechanisms between MX and CA, the ideal status would be that all the countries should work together under the same "umbrella"; in this case it already exists but in a framented way. This means, that the proposal is to unify everything in one single agreement to facilitate and not to obstruct the region's foreign trade. Besides this, it is relevant to insert Belize notwithstanding the cultural differences between this country and the rest. Therefore, the general objetive is to have one diplomatic-trading bloc between MX and CA so this can help to have a better political and commercial dialogue so this will contribute to an economic development, instead of having different bilateral or sub-regional forums, cooperation understandings, and trade agreements. With this previous information, seven specific objectives were established and became the "backbone" of the complete research. In chapter one, the theoretical framework -that gives support to the entire thesis- is presented. In chapter two, MX-CA's diplomatic and trade relationships background is provided. In chapter three, their current relationships are shown plus Colombia and DR. In chapter four, the MP is explained in a detailed way where all the agenda topics are shown and its current status related to the Development Millenium Goals (DMG) established by the United Nations (UN). In this last chapter, a new agenda -with diplomatic and trade matters- is proposed under the new 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that replace the DMG, which have been set up by the UN to work for the next 15 years. Along this research, two relevant issues are considered. The first one is to give answers to the central and adjacent hypothesis. The second one is that new possible research areas are mentioned. As final conclusions, every inquiry is answered in order to have as a final reflection that definitely a new agenda in both areas -diplomatic and trade- is required in order to respond to current needs. Being that regional problems, require regional solutions.
