Paradojas de las controversias territoriales latinoamericanas.

Although the ideas of the Enlightenment inspired their wars of independence, Latin American states gave shape to an authoritarian political order that is usually called presidentialism and that, based on the interdependence of the global order and the principles and norms of international law, prevailing classic, they projected themselves to the world with a sovereign policy that is expressed, among other things, in the constitutionalization of their territory. However, this sovereign foreign policy came into contradiction with the principles of cooperation and multilateralism that emerged in the mid-20th century with contemporary international law, whose principles and norms were incorporated into the legal system of Latin American States through constitutional clauses of openness to law. international. In this way, when a territorial-maritime dispute between two Latin American States was submitted to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the States that were defeated in court made prevail the norms of domestic law that constitutionally elevated the territory, exposing, in In this way, they made sovereignty prevail over the principles of cooperation and multilateralism.

This work analyzes the seven rulings of the International Court of Justice that resolve the five Latin American territorial-maritime disputes, sovereignty, interdependence, cooperation and multilateralism.