South American Integration and EU Inter-regionalism: What Impact?

The feeling of exceptionalism of the European Union, due to its internal make-up as an integrated bloc of nations, has helped to develop a foreign policy which has been labelled inter regionalism. Two generally accepted propositions (arguments) regarding European inter regionalism are the following: 1) the EU is applying soft power in its foreign relations with developing nations due to its internal make-up, which influences actorness; and 2) European leadership among those nations would lead necessarily to the establishment of a more stable, peaceful, and democratic world order. The paper tests these two propositions, as well as the impact of inter-regionalism in South American integration ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]