According to the Argentine scholar Roberto Bouzas, MERCOSUR is in a critical state of affairs, owing to the inability of its institutions to maintain “the common objectives which drove its member states to engage in the process of regional integration and the consequent loss of focus and capacity to prioritize underlying political problems. Similar diagnoses are made with respect to the Latin American Economic System (SELA), the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), and other regional organizations.
以冷战后主要的地区性计划南美共同市场为例。 阿根廷学者罗伯托·博萨斯提出因其下属机构无法持续制定推动成员国参与地区融合进程的共同目标，再加上由此造成的无法确定主要政治问题的优先顺序，南美共同市场现在的状态已经十分危急。 拉丁美洲经济体系、安第斯国家共同体和其他地区性组织也被诊断出存在相似的问题。