Group Socialization in the Making of Clustered Regimes
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agents' interaction, IR and socialization, clustered regimes, language, pacific alliance
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This paper explains the significance of agent interaction and socialization in making institutional clusters by focusing on group agents. Theoretical insights based on Social Identity Theory and cluster regimes concepts link the importance of group agents' language, discourses, interaction, and in-group dynamics. The research results are based on critical discourse analysis, particularly on elite decision-makers and their closest advisors. Empirically, the investigation focuses on the Pacific Alliance group dynamics mechanisms to which they recur. I study a period between 2011 and 2014, particularly considering critical historical junctures by 2007. The research highlights the Pacific Alliance's geopolitical core. I conclude that the Pacific Alliance decision-makers led normative basis already shared and set in-group boundaries to consolidate the image of a clear self-differentiated group reluctant to Chavez's negative influence in South America. Thus, the Pacific Alliance's perception of the Chavist belief system as damaging to the South American domain was a regional driver for its conception.
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