Latin American scholars, who have studied the Andean subregional integration process, viewed the Andean Community as a less effective attempt to follow the European Union model and pointed to its diffuse institutional framework and the divergent political vision of the Andean countries as deficiencies. However, European scholars, who have addressed their regional integration process, and even compared it with the Andean one, started from a different theoretical notion by cataloging them as supranational political systems, which allowed them, unlike the Latin American scholars, to introduce theoretical and methodological tools of Political Science to understand the policy-making process in the European Union.In this sense, the research article seeks to understand the policy-making process in the Andean Community, incorporating theories, approaches and methodologies of International Relati...

Latin American scholars, who have studied the Andean subregional integration process, viewed the Andean Community as a less effective attempt to follow the European Union model and pointed to its diffuse institutional framework and the divergent political vision of the Andean countries as deficiencies. However, European scholars, who have addressed their regional integration process, and even compared it with the Andean one, started from a different theoretical notion by cataloging them as supranational political systems, which allowed them, unlike the Latin American scholars, to introduce theoretical and methodological tools of Political Science to understand the policy-making process in the European Union.In this sense, the research article seeks to understand the policy-making process in the Andean Community, incorporating theories, approaches and methodologies of International Relati...

Latin American scholars, who have studied the Andean subregional integration process, viewed the Andean Community as a less effective attempt to follow the European Union model and pointed to its diffuse institutional framework and the divergent political vision of the Andean countries as deficiencies. However, European scholars, who have addressed their regional integration process, and even compared it with the Andean one, started from a different theoretical notion by cataloging them as supranational political systems, which allowed them, unlike the Latin American scholars, to introduce theoretical and methodological tools of Political Science to understand the policy-making process in the European Union.In this sense, the research article seeks to understand the policy-making process in the Andean Community, incorporating theories, approaches and methodologies of International Relati...