MERCOSUR

Mercosur can be said to have begun with the 1979 Tripartite Agreement with Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. This agreement was carried out to resolve disputes around South American Water reserves. Notably the Itaipu Dam and the Parana River. This was very important because according to Gian Luca Gardini, this event was "the first manifestation" of these relations (Gardini, Making Sense Of Rapproachment Between Argentina And Brazil, 1979-82, 2006) . This in turn had lead to both Argentina and Brazil's governments discussing in more detail on measures of integration. Which can be backed up further in the 1980's because Brazil could see the benefit of international co-operation with Argentina from a military standpoint due to the shift towards a militaristic international focus which shifted further with the Constituent Assembly (Mariano, 2012) . This is very important because within this institution South American integration was an issue that was brought to ...

In order to describe the social characteristics of the Mercosur members, we must look at their Human Development Index. The HDI is an indicator which measures the development of the countries taking some variables into account, such as the education, health or wealth of such country.  According to the data of 2017 presented by the UN Development Programme, amongst the 4 Mercosur members (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay: we don’t take Venezuela into account since it’s suspended), Argentina is the one with a higher index. It’s the 47 th  country in the world list, with an index of 0.825 (considered “High Human Development”). Getting into more details, its life expectancy is located around 76.7 years old and it has a literacy rate of 98.1%.  The second country of the region is Uruguay, the 55 th  in the world list, with a HDI of 0.804 (also considered “High Human Development”). Its life expectancy is around 77.6 years old and its literacy rate is 98...