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Publication date:

30 October 2003

Length of book:

432 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461638636

This comprehensive text analyzes the foreign policies of eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. First assessing the state of the discipline, the introduction develops a common framework that compares the relevant explanatory weight of foreign policy determinants at the individual, state, and international level for each country. Case studies include the major regional powers such as Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, as well as less-studied players such as the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Uruguay. With its focused analytical questions and rich empirical description, this book allows readers to develop sustained comparisons across the full spectrum of Latin American foreign policy.
Mora and Hey's book raises some critical questions about the extent to which Latin American republics might expect to exercise autonomy in their foreign relations in the early twenty-first century, or if the complementary forces of dependency and realism in international politics will continue to limit their room for maneuver….Such questions will remain at the center of debates on Latin American and Caribbean foreign policy for the foreseeable future.