Andrea Taborri

The project analyzes the Mercosur-EU Association Agreement and the popular resistance against it in the Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) from the critical perspective of International Political Economy. Considering the geographically uneven development of global capitalism, the asymmetric consequences—within a core-periphery logic—between the two regions involved are central to this study. In light of this, anti-Agreement claims are analyzed based on the anticipated consequences, delving into the overlap between traditional class demands and new forms of activism, especially in defense of the environment. Finally, the study examines to what extent these positions are able to stand in an anti-hegemonic stance against the logic underlying the Agreement.