Description
The changing social reality demands social scientists to innovate and incorporate research methods and techniques capable of responding to emerging phenomena and proposing new categories to denote and characterize their complexity. In the field of International Relations, following events such as the 2008 crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, the term "de-globalization" has become popular, suggesting that the world has entered a new stage of regression in terms of global integration and interdependence. In this context, this work reflects about the importance of the quantitative methodological approach in the study of de-globalization, as well as the advantages of using statistical methods and techniques that allow generating premises and reaching logically derived conclusions in descriptive, correlational and explanatory research, in this case, related to the role that Latin American countries are playing in the new international context, since specialists have pointed out that the countries of the Global South will be the winners of these de-globalizing trends. On this note, this paper asks, what role are countries like Mexico playing in the new international scenario? How are these countries related the de-globalization trend? and What are the implications of this trend for the future of the Global South? For these and other questions, data science has something to say.
