Cooperación Sur-Sur: Análisis de su impacto en la transformación del régimen internacional de la OCDE en materia de cooperación internacional

Abstract

The dynamics of south-south cooperation have challenged the traditional structure of the international regimen of international cooperation developed by the OECD. The difference between the "DAC donors" and the "Non-DAC" partners, in reference to the countries members of the Development Assistance Committe, establishes two types of cooperation which difference themselves in four aspects: the quality of the actors involved, the direction od the relationship, the type of exchange involved and the presence or absence of the Principle of Condicionality. Unlike the North-South cooperation relationships which have a unidirectional relationship between the donor and the recipient in which the donor gives financial flows (in the form of credits or loans), the South-South cooperation relationships have a bidirectional nature. This change, turns international cooperation into a tool of relative power for those actors who were lacking weight in the international system. In consequence, the fundamental role of the States with emergent economies will be to give voice to those that have not had it. Across relations that catalogue as strategic associations, among subjects with a similar level of development, the Principle of Conditionality as rector of the relation of cooperation, disappears. Therefore, the creation and establishmente of the Task Team for South - South Cooperation assigned to the DAC is a sample of the structural change in the regime of international cooperation, and even more, of the traditional dynamics of the international system.