L’institutionnalisation du régionalisme centraméricain : les limites de la diplomatie présidentielle

Abstract

With the exception of the Sica genesis sequence, the Central American presidential summits have received little attention from academics, both empirically and theoretically. If those presidential summits were considered crucial for the pacification of Central America in the 1980s, have they played such a central role in the institutionalization of Central American integration since then? We provide an empirical examination of the Central American presidential summits’ state of play in order to assess the place of presidential diplomacy as a driving force of Central American regionalism. We claim the summits are in crisis and through them the presidential model of Central American regionalism as a whole.

Keywords

• regionalism
• institutionalization
• Central America
• presidential diplomacy
• Sica