Resumen

LORUSSO, Fabrizio. La interpretación de la relación externa en América Latina: Los patrones de continuidad y retorno en el análisis social de la región. Universum [online]. 2008, vol.23, n.2, pp.128-137. ISSN 0718-2376.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-23762008000200007.

The article aims to underline the historical path, the scope as well as the theoretic and explanatory limitations of the most wide spread conceptions in latinamericanist academy and its social analysis about international insertion of Latin America and its relations with the rest of the world. As a reference frame, mainstream interpretations of the processes of globalization are used, which have been shaping different schools of thought or theories that can be classified in transformation, novelty, continuity and return, being the last two ones the most considered in the Latin American Studies field and even in the public opinion of the region.

Palabras clave : Latin America; External relation; Globalization; Continuity; Return; Social analysis.