Title: O neo-funcionalismo qualificado na integração sul-americana de infraestrutura: uma proposta teórica a partir do estudo de caso do Brasil
Abstract: This research aims primarily at understanding the challenges regarding the regional infrastructure integration in South America.Studying the infraestructure interconnectivity Works of the Innitiative for the Integration of Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), irregularities in public Works execution are analysed, aiming at stressing their impacts on the regional integration effort.This reaearch's central hypothesis is that the regional infrastructure integration process depends on supranational normatization which obliges countries to raise their quality standards on infrastructure public works.The analysis uses the theoretical framework offered by Regional Publi Goods theory, New Economic Geography and the New Regionalist Approach, leading to a revision of neo-functionalist thought on integration.The methodological tool used for hypothesis testing is process tracing.