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Colombia: Learning the Foreign Policy Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat
Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science of the University of the Andes in Bogotá and Vienna Institute for Latin America Studies
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Colombian policy makers dedicate little time and effort to international relations.

M. Urrutia (1980)

In view of Latin America's growing bargaining power within the international system, the Chilean Heraldo Muñoz (1981) has assessed the power potential of several Latin American states, basing his calculations on abstract statistics. According to this categorization, Colombia has a power potential comparable to that of Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela. Colombians would probably be very surprised at such an analysis. As they see it, their country does not figure in international politics. Hence, the idea of a nation with a foreign nonpolicy (Drekonja-Kornat, 1982b) seems justified.

However, countries must adapt to new situations, and growing tensions in the Caribbean Basin are forcing Colombia to examine the apparent contradiction between its potential and its real capacity. This is particularly important when one considers that Colombia's low profile in foreign policy is not a product of abstentionist or neutral doctrines (as in the case of Canada, Switzerland, or Austria) but is the result of historical developments occurring after the secession of Panama.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , May 1983 , pp. 229 - 250
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Copyright © University of Miami 1983

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