Latin American Foreign Policy Research Articles

Climate Change Decisions: International Influences on Argentina's Foreign Policy Decision Making

This paper aims to contribute to both environmental and Latin American foreign policy decision making literatures, both of which are comparatively underrepresented areas of study. Specifically, it analyzes the factors affecting former Argentine President Carlos Saul Menem when he chose to join the Kyoto Protocol in 1998 and, thus, the international climate change regime. President Menem made a bold announcement that his country would voluntarily reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, a pledge well beyond what was required of the developing nation (as prescribed by the Protocol). This paper suggests that international factors, specifically Menem’s desire to align his nation with the United States, critically influenced the president’s decision, thereby advancing the argument that in this instance international (and individual), and not domestic factors, determined the president’s behavior. The paper concludes with a discussion of the boarder implications of the importance of international variables in the decision making processes of Latin American leaders and environmental foreign policy.

Global Shift: The U.N. System and the New Regionalism in Latin America

AbstractThis study analyzes Latin America in light of the post–Cold War transformation of the global system. Much of Latin American foreign policy studies traditionally has been concerned with the region's subordinate position to “core” countries (generally, developed states and their ruling elites) and the degree to which these countries' policies constrain Latin American policies and development. While this juxtaposition is still a major topic, it ignores the leverage of new “spheres of authority” (SOAs), where global rules and norms are increasingly sustained. A hypothesis presented here is that the U.N. system is an example of such an SOA, which creates a new context for the insertion of periphery demands in the international agenda. A second hypothesis is that such insertion is increasingly made through the creation of new regional groupings, which are an expression of national development and security demands. Such processes carry both new possibilities and challenges.

Global Shift: The U.N. System and the New Regionalism in Latin America

This study analyzes Latin America in light of the post–Cold War transformation of the global system. Much of Latin American foreign policy studies traditionally has been concerned with the region's subordinate position to "core" countries (generally, developed states and their ruling elites) and the degree to which these countries' policies constrain Latin American policies and development. While this juxtaposition is still a major topic, it ignores the leverage of new "spheres of authority" (SOAs), where global rules and norms are increasingly sustained. A hypothesis presented here is that the U.N. system is an example of such an SOA, which creates a new context for the insertion of periphery demands in the international agenda. A second hypothesis is that such insertion is increasingly made through the creation of new regional groupings, which are an expression of national development and security demands. Such processes carry both new possibilities and challenges.

Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy

Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy

Is There a Latin American Foreign Policy?

Is There a Latin American Foreign Policy? Get access Latin American Nations in World Politics. Second edition. Edited by Muñoz Heraldo Tulchin Joseph S.. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. 280 pp., $65.00 cloth(ISBN: 0-8133-0872-0), $23.00 paper(ISBN: 0-8133-0873-9).Foreign Policy and Regionalism in the Americas. Edited by Mace Gordon Thèrien Jean-Philippe. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996. 253 pp., $49.95 cloth(ISBN: 1-55587-513-0), $19.95 paper(ISBN: 1-55587-637-4). Jeanne A. K. Hey Jeanne A. K. Hey Department of Political Science and the International Studies Program, Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mershon International Studies Review, Volume 42, Issue Supplement_1, May 1998, Pages 106–116, https://doi.org/10.2307/254446 Published: 01 May 1998

Three building blocks of a theory of Latin American foreign policy

towards developing theory. Scholarship on Latin American foreign policy-particularly, though certainly not exclusively, that emanating from Latin America-focuses heavily on international law, foreign policy principles and traditions and the role of individual leaders.3 Increasingly, researchers have expanded the scope of their examination of Latin American foreign policy, encountering in their analyses a broad range of foreign policy goals and explanatory forces.4 A review of the literature reveals that Latin American foreign policy makers include among their more important goals autonomy, development and the management of their relationship with the USA. Other key goals include developing policy to treat regional relationships, Third Worldism, drug trafficking, national security, arms control, border disputes and other local issues. A literature review also finds that the most frequently cited explanatory factors of Latin American foreign policy are US influence, poor economic resources, leader and regime ideology, and the global distribution of power and wealth. Researchers in this area rarely spend time pondering methodological issues. Overwhelmingly, the case study approach dominates the literature. Most examinations are qualitative studies of the foreign policy behavior of an individual state, regime or a few countries in comparative perspective. The research heavily focuses on the nation-state and often takes the form of story-telling, albeit in an analytical way which sometimes includes some loosely tested hypotheses.5 A 'kitchen sink' approach is also popular, in which researchers model and examine all the potential explanatory inputs into a particular country's (or countries')

Foreign Policy Options under Dependence: A Theoretical Evaluation with Evidence from Ecuador

Scholarly studies that consider the relationship between economic dependence and foreign policy reveal a wide variety of dependent foreign policy behaviour. As a body, the dependent foreign policy literature lacks the theoretical continuity needed to understand and organise this empirical diversity. Such foreign policy diversity is particularly observable in capitalist Latin America. Despite the entire region's significant economic weakness and dependence on the USA, leaders implement foreign policies as defiant as Oscar Arias's peace plan for Central America and as apparently acquiescent as Carlos Salinas de Gortari's agreeing to a Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and the USA. Progress in theory building in the area of dependent foreign policy, therefore, has particular implications for the study of Latin American foreign policy, which has been dominated by individual case studies that too rarely place their findings in a theoretical context.

Castro and “New Thinking” in Latin America

This article will argue that general agreement between Cuba and the Soviet Union on their foreign policy toward Latin America is likely over the long run, despite (a) Fidel Castro's condemnation ofperestroikaandglasnost, and (b) his obvious attempt to embarrass Soviet Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev during the latter's state visit to Cuba in April 1989. Serious obstacles — such as differences over Cuban domestic policy and Castro's personal ambitions — remain to be overcome, but foreign policy disagreements between the two countries are likely to prove less intractable than is frequently assumed.This article will start with (1) an overview of Cuban Latin American foreign policy since the 1970s; then proceed to (2) an interpretation of Soviet “new thinking;” and finally (3) argue that this particular interpretation of “new thinking” is consistent with, andnotcontradictory to, Castro's foreign policy.

The Dynamics of Latin American Foreign Policies: Challenges for the 1980s. Edited by Jennie K. Lincoln and Elizabeth G. Ferris. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 325. $35.00, cloth; $14.95, paper.)

The Dynamics of Latin American Foreign Policies: Challenges for the 1980s. Edited by Jennie K. Lincoln and Elizabeth G. Ferris. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1984. Pp. xvi + 325. 14.95, paper.) - Volume 79 Issue 3

The Dynamics of Latin American Foreign Policies: Challenges for the 1980s

The Dynamics of Latin American Foreign Policies: Challenges for the 1980s

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional Dimensions. Edited By Elizabeth G. Ferris and Jennie K. Lincoln. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 300. $26.50, cloth; $14.00, paper.)

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional Dimensions. Edited By Elizabeth G. Ferris and Jennie K. Lincoln. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 300. 14.00, paper.) - Volume 76 Issue 3

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional Dimensions. Edited By Elizabeth G. Ferris and Jennie K. Lincoln. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 300. $26.50, cloth; $14.00, paper.)

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional Dimensions. Edited By Elizabeth G. Ferris and Jennie K. Lincoln. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981. Pp. xvii + 300. 14.00, paper.) - Volume 76 Issue 3

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional Dimensions.

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional Dimensions.

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional DimensionsLatin American Integration

Latin American Foreign Policies: Global and Regional DimensionsLatin American Integration

Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis

Journal Article Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis Get access Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis. Edited by Harold Eugene Davis and Larman C. Wilson. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1975. 470 pp. Gordon Connell-Smith Gordon Connell-Smith 1University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 1, January 1980, Page 210, https://doi.org/10.2307/2615819 Published: 01 January 1980

Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis. By Harold Eugene Davis, Larman C. Wilson and others. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xiii + 470. $18.00, cloth; $5.95, paper.)

Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis. By Harold Eugene Davis, Larman C. Wilson and others. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. xiii + 470. 5.95, paper.) - Volume 72 Issue 3

Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis

Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis

Book Reviews : Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis. By HAROLD E. DAVIS, LARMAN C. WILSON, and others. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. 470. $18.00; $5.95.)

Book Reviews : Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis. By HAROLD E. DAVIS, LARMAN C. WILSON, and others. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Pp. 470. $18.00; $5.95.)

Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis

Latin American Foreign Policies: An Analysis

Latin American Foreign Policies in the Era of Detente*

S CHEMATA for obtaining an overall view of Latin America's international relations exist and have proved useful 1; but to appreciate the full variety of the diplomatic scene in the area it is advisable to break down these patterns into their constituent parts. It is proposed to attempt this by examining the foreign policies of the key countries of Latin America from within. The present foreign policies of the Latin American governments are largely a function of the interplay between changing United States and Brazilian policies on the one hand and those of Argentina, Mexico and Peru on the other, with Cuba presenting a pivot on which the policies of the United States, the Soviet Union and the Latin American countries turn. The chief factors in the scene have been the declining stature of the United States and the growing role of Brazil.2 The policy of the 'low profile' in Latin America now being practised by the former appears to be partly a tactical device, and partly the product of a strategic reappraisal by Dr. Henry Kissinger, who-until the oil crisis-considered the region inessential to the security of the United States.