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The article analyses the process by which the Sub-Saharan region has become part of the new neoliberal global order. This is analysed with social theories of the international, within an analytical balance between the politico-economic dimensions and the cultural-ideational dimensions. From a world-systems perspective focused on hierarchical and hegemonic international relations it is observed how the Sub-Saharan region has continued to be within clear structural dependence relations both socioeconomic and cultural-ideational. From a world society perspective an ambivalent development is depicted in the region, featured with difficulties in constructing nation-states that can be formally internationally homologated, and limited regional integration and empowerment processes. Moreover, the glocal epistemic relations of definitional power are discussed, in relation to global knowledge dynamics and the role of public higher education. There are two main conclusions: a) region's increasingly formal international homologation in the neoliberal global order has not modified region's structural economic and political dependence, which is based in a cultural-ideational dependence relative to its epistemic and definitional power; and b) as democratization slowly advances there are actual and potential dynamics of generation of own and alternative epistemes, which could enable possibilities for a glocal contestation to a the hegemonic neoliberal model.

The article analyses the process by which the Sub-Saharan region has become part of the new neoliberal global order. This is analysed with social theories of the international, within an analytical balance between the politico-economic dimensions and the cultural-ideational dimensions. From a world-systems perspective focused on hierarchical and hegemonic international relations it is observed how the Sub-Saharan region has continued to be within clear structural dependence relations both socioeconomic and cultural-ideational. From a world society perspective an ambivalent development is depicted in the region, featured with difficulties in constructing nation-states that can be formally internationally homologated, and limited regional integration and empowerment processes. Moreover, the glocal epistemic relations of definitional power are discussed, in relation to global knowledge dynamics and the role of public higher education. There are two main conclusions: a) region's increasingly formal international homologation in the neoliberal global order has not modified region's structural economic and political dependence, which is based in a cultural-ideational dependence relative to its epistemic and definitional power; and b) as democratization slowly advances there are actual and potential dynamics of generation of own and alternative epistemes, which could enable possibilities for a glocal contestation to a the hegemonic neoliberal model. ; El artículo analiza el proceso de relación e inserción del África subsahariana en el orden global neoliberal dominado por los países centrales occidentales. Se aplican dos teorías sociales de lo internacional dentro de un equilibrio analítico entre las dimensiones económico-políticas e ideacionales-culturales. Desde la perspectiva de los sistemas-mundo de relaciones internacionales jerárquicas y hegemónicas se observa cómo la región ha seguido inmersa en unas relaciones de dependencia estructural tanto socioeconómica como ideacional-cultural. Desde la perspectiva neo-institucionalista de la sociedad mundo se enfatiza el ambivalente desarrollo de la región, con dificultades en la construcción de estados formalmente homologables internacionalmente, y de integración y empoderamiento regional. Se discuten las relaciones glocales epistémicas de poder definitorio, respecto a las dinámicas globales de conocimiento y la educación superior en la región. Se concluye que: a) la creciente homologación internacional de la región en el orden global neoliberal no ha modificado su dependencia estructural económica y política, la cual se basa en una dependencia cultural-ideacional relativa a su poder epistémico o definitorio; b) el lento proceso de democratización de las sociedades subsaharianas parece ir acompañado de algunas dinámicas de generación de una episteme propia y alternativa que podría posibilitar una contestación glocal al modelo hegemónico neoliberal.