Latin America: experts’ perception of foreign policy dimensions

Political Science literature on Latin American foreign policy abounds in case studies but has not dealt much on theory and papers containing extensions. This has severely limited comparisons between countries and reduced the ability to identify the region's foreign policy similarities, trends and patterns. Therefore, one can find detailed narratives that however provide few systematic data to construct sound explanations on Latin America´s foreign policy. In order to fill this gap, the paper aims at examining foreign policy trends in the period 1980-2014 in 19 Latin American countries. On the basis of experts' impressions on foreign policy positions of the latters' presidents we evaluate their stand in four foreign policy dimensions: foreign policy style, geopolitical direction, economic position and relationship with the United States. The text refers to the present situation, the methodology applied and the initial statistical aggregates.

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Main Authors: Merke, Federico, Reynoso, Diego
Format: Digital revista
Language:spa
Published: Universidad de Chile. Instituto de Estudios Internacionales 2016
Online Access:https://revistaei.uchile.cl/index.php/REI/article/view/44555
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Summary:Political Science literature on Latin American foreign policy abounds in case studies but has not dealt much on theory and papers containing extensions. This has severely limited comparisons between countries and reduced the ability to identify the region's foreign policy similarities, trends and patterns. Therefore, one can find detailed narratives that however provide few systematic data to construct sound explanations on Latin America´s foreign policy. In order to fill this gap, the paper aims at examining foreign policy trends in the period 1980-2014 in 19 Latin American countries. On the basis of experts' impressions on foreign policy positions of the latters' presidents we evaluate their stand in four foreign policy dimensions: foreign policy style, geopolitical direction, economic position and relationship with the United States. The text refers to the present situation, the methodology applied and the initial statistical aggregates.