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Mexico's Foreign Policy in 1990: Electoral Sovereignty and Integration with the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jorge Chabat
Jorge Chabat*
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigation y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Ibero-American University in Mexico
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Mexico's Foreign Policy of 1990 was marked by an acceleration of trends that began a few years ago, producing a pattern of relationships that would have been almost unimaginable only a decade ago. On the one hand, its most obvious characteristic — begun during the de la Madrid sexenio and heightened during Salinas's first year in office — was that economic recovery became the focal point of government strategy: i.e., there was an “economization” of foreign policy. On the other hand, and reflecting the weight given to economic issues, the movement toward integration with the United States — a trend already apparent in the previous administration — picked up speed and acted as a direct complement of the development strategy. This move became more concrete as preliminary talks got under way preparatory to signing a joint free trade treaty.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , Winter 1991 , pp. 1 - 26
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Copyright © University of Miami 1991

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