UN NUEVO PARADIGMA DEL ESTADO UNITARIO: LA ASIMETRÍA TERRITORIAL Y LOS ESQUEMAS DE COORDINACIÓN* A NEW PARADIGM OF THE UNITARY STATE: TERRITORIAL ASYMMETRY AND COORDINATING SCHEMES

This article aims at highlighting the importance of using territorialschemes in accordance with social, economic and cultural situations inColombia, allowing the configuration of political autonomy in which agovernment margin is recognized for the care of local interests and its owndefense. This comes from the understanding of the conceptual frameworkof the federal state and the new concepts of federal arrangements. Thiscontributes to understand the idea of process in shaping territorial designsin which recognition of territorial alternatives for diverse populations isessential, but also find forms of cooperation, coordination and solidarityamong local authorities. This may break the rigidity of the Colombianunitary state, and allow the territories to be the ones leading their interestsonce they have been identified.