Organizers:

Dr. Maria-Aparecida Lopes
California State University, Fresno

Dr. María Cecilia Zuleta
Centro de Estudios Históricos-El Colegio de México

This symposium aims to exam, in light of renewed thematic and methodological approaches, international relations in the American continent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Within the mentioned historical framework, this symposium seeks to address the following topics: regional and international commercial connections and markets, foreign investments, processes of socioeconomic integration – as well as the actors and agencies involved in these processes – and the role of multilateral organizations in different areas of the continent. The symposium will bring together and consider as many different case studies as possible in order to provide comparative approaches on a variety of international issues, ranging from collaboration to interdependence amongst government and non-governmental organizations, investors, and other individual and collective actors, such as consumers and labor unions. Some of the topics to be addressed include but are not limited to:

internationalization of commodity markets and consumption – considering the actors and dynamics that this internationalization propels; as well as the dynamics of interaction, negotiation, and international economic cooperation that results in bilateral and multilateral regional and international agreements of cooperation in trade, transport, communications, energy, and sanitary measures.