Critical Geopolitics and Regional (Re)Configurations

Heriberto Cairo is Professor in Political Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, where he has been dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. He has published extensively in geopolitics, peace and conflict studies and Latin American integration process.

This book seeks to develop our understanding of the contemporary geopolitical reconfigurations of two regions of the world system with high cultural affinity and traditional close relations: Latin America and Europe.

Foreword: "Latin" America and Former "South/Western Europe" in the World (Dis) Order Introduction: The Geopolitics of Interregionalism and Transnationalism Part I: Latin America and Europe in The Contemporary World System: Imperiality, Domination and Cooperation 1. Interventionism, Invasiveness and the Geopolitics of the Imperial: In Search of the Pathways of Power 2. Social Liberalism and Global Domination: Lessons for Latin America and Europe 3. Euro-Latin American Interregionalism in the New Post-cold War Geopolitical Order Part II: Geopolitical Imaginaries and Socio-Territorial Orders in Latin America and Europe 4. European Models, Latin American Cases: Eurocentrism and the Contentious Politics of State Formation 5. Forgotten Europes. Rethinking Regional Entanglements from the Caribbean 6. Geopolitical Narratives of an 'Accommodating' State in the Face of 'Low Geopolitics': The Marca España and Attracting Multilatina Investment 7. Beyond the 'Lettered Border': Towards a Comparative Horizon in European and Latin American Border Studies 8. Beyond a Regional Gaze? Orders, Borders and Modern Geopolitical Imaginations in Europe and Latin America Part III: (Inter)regionalism from Below: Social Actors, Pedagogies and Transnational Practices 9. Interregionalism from Below: Cultural Affinity, Translation and Solidarities in the Ibero-American Space 10. The New Cycle of Women's Mobilizations between Latin America and Europe: A Feminist Geopolitics Perspective on Interregionalism 11. New configurations in the Geopolitics of Transnational Solidarities: Mexico inside Barcelona, from Zapatistas to Indignados Epilogue: Latin Americanization of Europe: Possibilities for a Geopolitical Pedagogical Transformation