Repensando la integración y las integraciones

For seven years, the Jean Monnet Chair of the Externado University of Colombia, in addition to its regular undergraduate and graduate offerings, held an annual international seminar, where national and foreign researchers, on the subject of European and Latin American integration, presented their economic and legal reflections. , political, historical and interdisciplinary, which were collected in a book of memories. Now, on the contrary, the research that will be defended at the international event is previously presented and evaluated.

The reason for this change is that at the beginning of its eighth year of actions, the Chair was attached to the new academic unit of our Department "Jean Monnet Thinking Center: Business, Commerce and Integration - CEPEC", where from a multidisciplinary perspective We develop five academic axes: the study of comparative integration law: European Union and Latin America, three lines of research through the Trade and Integration Research Group, the formation of a double-degree master's degree in integration and globalization with the University of Valencia (Spain) and the Trade and Integration Network as a space for interaction and training of experts, researchers, businessmen and public servants.

Thus, this book by research chapters is the result of a public call that we made to national and foreign academic experts to present scientific articles related to thinking and rethinking integration processes. Eleven national and twenty foreign academics responded to our invitation. Their writings were subjected to a rigorous evaluation by blind peers, who recommended the publication of sixteen of them.