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03/02/2017

The central bioceanic train: a geopolitical scenario in the configuration of South American strategic corridors (DIEEEO12-2017)

The characteristics of the changing international order have shaped, throughout the universal history, strategic corridors in specific spaces of the world geography. There are configured geopolitical scenarios with geostrategic relevance. South America doesn’t escape at this statement, an example is the proliferation of corridors as bridges between the oceans Atlantic and Pacific. Nowadays, the Panama Canal is the maximum materialization of the dream of linking two oceans by the center and south of the American continent.

Depending on the geographic location, the bi-oceanic corridors can be analyzed from the geo-economic rim. But if the bi-oceanic corridors implicate multilateral interests of different states, the analysis is from the geopolitical rim. The present document analyzes the Central Bi-oceanic Train project from the second rim. At the end, furthermore than geo-economic considerations the Central Bi-oceanic Train faces geopolitical considerations.

Author: Jimmy Graziani Mora

THIS DOCUMENT IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN SPANISH LANGUAGE.

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