Abstract
The paper aims to analyze the inflections observed in United States foreign policy for Latin America and the Caribbean after the midterm elections in November 2018. The text is divided into three parts. First, the election results and some institutional implications that should affect the remainder of Donald Trump’s presidential term are discussed. In the second part, we discuss the content of what can be called, with the proper qualifications, of Trump Corollary. It also highlights mechanisms for implementing the policy for the region, with the marginalization of professional diplomacy, delegation to specific interest groups and centrality of national security agencies, especially the military. Finally, the third part of the text seeks to highlight how the corollary is being implemented with regard to the securitization of the Chinese interests in Latin America, as well as the Venezuelan crisis and the immigrant issue. Following the current path, United States tend to incur in additional loss of legitimacy and economic and political centrality in the Western Hemisphere.
Highlights
Este trabalho visa a analisar as inflexões observadas na política externa dos Estados Unidos da América para a América Latina e o Caribe após as eleições de novembro de 2018
The paper aims to analyze the inflections observed in United States foreign policy for Latin America and the Caribbean after the midterm elections in November 2018
The text is divided into three parts
Summary
The paper aims to analyze the inflections observed in United States foreign policy for Latin America and the Caribbean after the midterm elections in November 2018. We discuss the content of what can be called, with the proper qualifications, of Trump Corollary It highlights mechanisms for implementing the policy for the region, with the marginalization of professional diplomacy, delegation to specific interest groups and centrality of national security agencies, especially the military. Agradeço ao professor Sebastião Velasco e Cruz e, na pessoa dele, a toda a equipe do Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Estudos sobre os Estados Unidos (INCT-INEU) – Edital no 15/2008, uma parceria entre o então Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (MCT), o CNPq, o Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (FNDCT), a Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), a Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), a Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) e a Fundação do Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) –, que apoiaram decididamente a realização da pesquisa. Muito obrigado à doutora Neusa Bojikian, pesquisadora do INCT-INEU, pela cuidadosa revisão editorial, e a Ana Luiza Vedovato, bolsista da CAPES e mestranda em estudos estratégicos internacionais da UFRGS, pela leitura cuidadosa e pelos comentários críticos
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