The reflection of the Latin American thought at the international sphere

among real politik and regional identity

Abstract

This article outlines how Latin American thought has penetrated international institutions, studying their motives and objectives, as well as their consequences from the postcolonial period to the present. The main objective of the article is to know if this influence is determined by a common desire of Latin American states to emancipate themselves from the directive imposed by Western civilisation or to integrate into it in a key of equality. This objective assumes that to achieve emancipation, it would be necessary to act under a
common conception of present and future sustained by Latin American identity.
To achieve the objective of the article, the studies of the most renowned Latin American internationalists in two different periods are considered, as well as the influence of Latin American diplomats in international negotiation processes. First, in the period immediately following the Latin American independence and, second, in the emergence of modern international law after the Second World War. Analyzing these times through their most important international jurists and Latin American diplomatic representatives in
international institutional construction, we will know what the diverse opinions and motivations of the authors are, the importance of Latin American identity and its results from a regional point of view.