Approaches to the role of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA) regional planners

Abstract

In this article the central role played by territorial planners is analyzed together with the vision of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) concerning Open Regionalism in the current strategy related to the insertion of Latin America in the global capitalism, based on its subjection to the imperatives of trans nationalized capital. It focuses on the methodological tool of Indicative Territorial Planning (Planificación Territorial Indicativa, PTI) as part of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (Iniciativa para la Integración de la Infraestructura Regional Suramericana, IIRSA), the latter being understood as an institution reproducing eclacÍ€™s open regionalism, in the light of its general proposal on regional physical integration. Four sections are presented where the emergence of eclacÍ€™s concept of open regionalism as a state space strategy and the relevance of iirsa in its promotion and dissemination are developed, and then to analyze the role played by territorial planners from seeking consensus by PTI to the creation of particular territorialities.