TY - BOOK AU - Salgado Espinoza,Raúl TI - Small builds big: how Ecuador and Uruguay contributed to the construction of UNASUR SN - 978-9978-674-90-1 U1 - 327.1 PY - 2017/// CY - Quito PB - Flacso KW - AMÉRICA LATINA KW - ECONOMÍA KW - HISTORIA KW - POLÍTICA EXTERIOR KW - 327.1 - Política exterior y temas específicos en las relaciones internacionales N2 - The fundamental aim of FLACSO Ecuador is to contribute to the development of diverse Latin American and Andean schools of thought, offered to its readers mainly in Spanish. This publication in English, Small Builds Big. How Ecuador and Uruguay contributed to the construction of UNASUR, has various significant aspects that need to be highlighted. One of the first is its relevance to research in International Relations. This book addresses a global readership, offering an innovative model to analyse the behaviour of small states in consolidating an integration project, namely UNASUR, in South America. Based on their performance, these nations are categorized into region-engaging, region-constraining, and region-adapting actors ER -