This paper addresses relations between Chile and Bolivia since 1904,year of the Treaty of Peace, and the 1960s, when conflict arises over the use of the waters of the Lauca River. Some integrationist historical events embarked in the adjoining regions of Tarapacá-Arica and Oruro, where the tension between region and nation-state can be observed are examined. The analysis focuses on the prominence of a diversity of political and social actors from the central states that encouraged and demanded greater integration with Bolivia. It is contended that those demands formed a cross-border regional political project in that period. The idea is to examine the significance and limitations of a series of regional practices of international significance, overshadowed or silenced by the official diplomacy, from the perspective of paradiplomacy as a social relationship or heterology.
Keywords:
diplomacy, paradiplomacy, cross-border relationships, regional political project
Author Biographies
Cristián Ovando Santana, Universidad Arturo Prat
Académico del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad Arturo Prat; máster y doctorando en estudios internacionales por la Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, España.
Sergio González Miranda, Universidad Arturo Prat
Director del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad Arturo Prat; Doctor en Estudios Americanos con mención en Relaciones Internacionales por la Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Ovando Santana, C., & González Miranda, S. (2014). Bilateral relations between Chile and Bolivia from the perspective of Tarapaca´s demands: a theoretical approach from paradiplomacy as heterology. Estudios Internacionales, 46(177), Pág. 35–64. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2014.30868
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