A OMC e o regionalismo do século XXI: estratégia de imposição de modelos normativos?

This paper is aimed to recontextualize the theme of regionalism in its relationship with the multilateral trading system, after twenty years of creation of the WTO. It is based on a new generation of studies, which identies the proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements post-Doha Round with interests different from those expressed before, contemporaneously related to the attempt to impose a regulatory-normative model, with future impacts in formulating schemes of global regulation. The methodology consists on bibliographic analysis of the evolution of the treatment of the subject by several generations of scholars, in view of the peculiar characteristics of the phenomenon in their respective realities, especially in this new aspect. The central conclusion of the work, in which remains its main value, is the perception that, given the complexities of the new regionalism in the XXI century, current initiatives seek to ll the space left by the regulations of freezing issues in the Doha Round. The paper concludes that trade negotiation is focused no more in bargain for market access through tariff cuts, but mainly in the ability to expand regulatory models, and that the normativity that today seems diluted tends to crystallize.