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Beyond Orthodoxy: Asserting Latin America's New Strategic Options Toward the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roberto Russell
Affiliation:
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. [email protected]
Juan Gabriel Tokatlian
Affiliation:
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. [email protected]

Abstract

This essay explores the possibility that Latin America may deploy new strategic options in its relations with Washington at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It starts by evaluating what have been the five major foreign policy models of the region with regard to Washington since the end of the Cold War. It proceeds by evaluating the recent dynamics of Latin American insertion into world affairs. Then it introduces three new alternatives for handling U.S. Latin American relations in the coming years. It concludes by pointing out the importance of understanding the scope of the hemispheric challenges for both the region and Washington.

Type
Policy Issues
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 2011

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