Abstract

RAMIREZ ZAMORA, Duván Fernando; MANTILLA VALBUENA, Silvia Cristina  and  ROMAN ROMERO, Raúl. Actors, Motivations, and Interests of the Parallel Diplomacy in the Border of the Colombian Insular Caribbean After the Hague Judgment. Estud. Polit. [online]. 2020, n.57, pp.42-69. ISSN 0121-5167.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n57a03.

This article studies the influence of varied political and international interests and motivations fostered by the local government and the civil society from the Colombian archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. This research focuses on the exercise of paradiplomatic activities in the cross-border scenario of the Great Caribbean after the sociopolitical crisis caused by the Hague’s border ruling in 2012. This case study analysis is based on a descriptive and qualitative approach. It concludes that although both the civil society and the local government may share common goals, each of them uses strategies for international insertion which are determined by numerous levels of political conflict against the national central government. Moreover, these strategies may vary from the traditional paradiplomacy based on harmonious relations towards the international acts and the interest of the Colombian State (local government), to protodiplomatic tendencies guided by strong identitarian, autonomist and even non-conformist motivations (in the case of the civil society represented by The Archipelago Movement for Ethnic Native Self Determination [AMEN-SD] group).

Keywords : International Relations; Paradiplomacy; Protodiplomacy; Boundaries; Great Caribbean; Colombia.

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