ABSTRACT
This paper was written in response to a request from ECLAC, to briefly suggest some premises for a new research program on the theme of state and development in Latin America. First, it summarizes the main positions of the classical debate on this theme, from the golden period of Latin American developmentalism, between the 1950s and 1970s. And then it suggests a new perspective, with the re-discussion of the issue of development, from a point of view that privileges the angle of ‘power’ and competition for power within the ‘interstate system’ as essential conditions of the economic success of the main capitalist powers of the international system. Finally, it introduces some possible scenarios for Latin American development, within a transforming world system.
KEYWORDS:
interstate system; power; war; development