Latin American International Political Economy: contributions beyond the transatlantic divide

The debate among scholars about what constitutes the field of International Relations (IR) has gained importance since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Stanley Hoffmann's characterization of IR as an 'American discipline'¹ generated an important discussion² about the extent to which IR is global and about what the parameters of the discipline might be, when what seems to predominate is a transatlantic core that constitutes the mainstream of the discipline vis-à-vis a non-western periphery that has generally been neglected.