Local policies of supranational territorial integration: a local strategy facing globalization

Globalization poses a dilemma on local organizations that cannot be ignored: either they join or drop out, and, as undesirable alternatives, loss of sovereignty or exclusion. The theoretical references of the functional doctrine of international spillover; the approach of Regional Integration Agreements; the new paradigms of systemic international competitiveness; and ECLA's open regionalism. Along with sustainable development proposals and LAIESP contribution, they participate in the broad agonic theoretical scene the article builds up so as to find a way out from this dilemma. On this arena, and through the approach of public policies and strategic organizational theory, the local policies of supranational territorial regional integration are proposed as an analytic, pragmatic, and strategic instrument to address the challenge posed by globalization on local political action. Of the broad spectrum offered by policy approaches, the intellectual and tacit knowledge dimensions are relieved and, as a trial, the "bi-oceanic corridors" are considered under the prism of the transnational integration policies proposed.