There Is No Reciprocity Latin America and Europe :
Subtitle:
Unequal Entanglements
Publication Name:
Working Paper
Volume, number, page:
n.91, pp.1-22
Year of Publication:
2016
Organization Name:
Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America
Publisher:
International Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America
City:
Berlin
Web Page:
Country of Publication:
Germany
Category:
Reports
Theme:
Subregion - European Union
BIREGIONAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
BIREGIONAL DIALOGUES UE-LAC
Keyword(s):
Latin America
European Union
Commodities
Unequal entanglements
Silver
Social Inequality
International economy
International economic relations
International capital interdependence
International trade interdependence
International commodity markets
International raw material markets
World market
Developing countries with natural resources
Groups of countries linked by trade policies
North-South trade
Trade between groups of countries
Colonialism
Economic policy
Foreign economic policy
Export dependency
Import dependency
International commodity trade
Economic relations between countries
North-South economic relations
Foreign trade policy
Capitalism
International economic dominance/dependence
Abstract:
This paper presents the transformations of Latin American-European relations over time as an interdependent unequal relationship. These relations have been shaped by exports of commodities, including the enrichment of European foodways with indigenous Latin American crops and the environmentally destructive extraction of natural resources and commercial export agriculture. The transformation under colonialism led not only to the settlement of Europeans in Latin America but also to the Atlantic slave trade. The consequence of these relations of domination even today is a limited acknowledgement of Latin America as being more than an extension of Europe. With the end of European immigration to and from Latin America, the role of the United States has grown instead, and increasingly developments in Latin America have also taken on their own dynamics, decoupled from Europe. In the coming decades, relations with China which have grown rapidly in commerce and commodity exports are likely to transform the role of Europe in the region yet again.
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