La nación ante la victoria y la derrota: Los discursos nacionalistas bolivianos y chilenos tras la Guerra del Pacífico

El objetivo principal de esta monografía consiste en explicar el proceso de reproducción discursiva del nacionalismo en Bolivia y Chile tras la Guerra del Pacífico. Tras el final de la guerra, las modificaciones fronterizas entre Bolivia y Chile han sido objeto de disputas entre ambos Estados hasta la actualidad. La perdurabilidad de estas disputas se debe a la existencia de las perspectivas históricas de cada una de las partes sobre la guerra, las cuales han sido un elemento constitutivo de discursos que han contribuido a la proliferación del nacionalismo en sus respectivas sociedades. Para el desarrollo de este propósito, las principales herramientas que se utilizarán son los Estudios Multidisciplinarios del Discurso de Teun Van Dijk y las diferentes concepciones de nación y nacionalismo como ideologías transversales del discurso nacionalista.

Bilateral trade between New Zealand & the pacific alliance: perspectives and possibilities for further trade engagement

Due to the rapid and effective success of countries in the Pacific Rim for the last two decades, current world trade attention has been focussed on what appears to be the common vision of the ‘Pacific Century’. Reducing attention from the Atlantic and focusing it on the Pacific represents a new challenge for countries touching this ocean. The main Latin American economies bordering the pacific have taken upon this challenge with the creation of the Pacific Alliance in 2011. In this way, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru intend to penetrate and increase trade with the region by forming a coalition. The Pacific Alliance has attracted international attention, interest and support from nations around the world, counting 32 countries as observers; 7 are actually located in the region and six of them rank amongst the Top 15 world economies. As is expected, the possibility of closer trade engagement with big players such as China, India, Japan, South Korea or Australia absorb the main attention of media, governments and academics alike, leaving behind other feasible and possible opportunities unattended. That is precisely the case of New Zealand and its favourable commerce opportunities with the Pacific Alliance. The following document will study the major trends and variations in trade between New Zealand, the Pacific Alliance and its members between 2010 and 2014. Proving that mutual trade is most likely to keep on growing.