Since the beginning of US President Donald Trump’s second term, the already volatile international order has faced increasingly disruptive developments and fundamental challenges. This volume outlines and analyses the role of Latin America as a whole, and of individual countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, in the new global (dis)order.
The book is divided into three parts. The first contains contributions on regional dynamics in Latin America: What do global developments mean for Latin America’s development options? What are the consequences for Latin American regionalism? Why have regional democracy clauses repeatedly proved ineffective? The second part examines the role of external actors in Latin America: the USA, China, the European Union and Russia. The third section analyses the foreign policies of single states and asks what role concepts such as ‘active non-alliance’ and ‘feminist foreign policy’ play for Latin America. In their concluding remarks, the editors analyse the potential consequences of Trump’s policies for the topics covered in the volume after the first 100 days of his Administration.
The volume provides an up-to-date, theory-based examination of key issues in Latin American international relations and is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers and others interested in Latin American international relations.
The volume provides an up-to-date, theory-based examination of key issues in Latin American international relations and is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers and others interested in Latin American international relations.
The Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Peter Birle and Claudia Zilla
PART I: Regional and International Dynamics
1 Changes in the Global Economy and New Challenges for Development Policy in
Latin America
Andrés Musacchio
2 New Regional Dynamics in Latin America or Old Wine in New Bottles?
Detlef Nolte
3 Electoral Cycles and Presidentialism. Advantages or Disadvantages for Latin
American Regionalism?
Susanne Gratius
4 Why Latin American Regional Democracy Clauses Have Fallen Short of
Expectations
Brigitte Weiffen
5 Latin American Regionalism: From Contestation to Depoliticisation
José Antonio Sanahuja
PART II: The Role of External Actors
6 Latin America and the United States in the New World Disorder: Hierarchy,
Heterarchy and Multiplicity
Jochen Kleinschmidt
7 China in Latin America Strategic Engagement and Patient Diplomacy
Benjamin Creutzfeldt
8 Latin America-Russia Relations: The War in Ukraine as a Turning Point?
Alexandra Sitenko
9 The European Union and Latin America. Towards a Renewal of the Bi-regional
Partnership?
Peter Birle
PART III: The Foreign Policies of Latin American Governments
10 Reshaping Priorities: Latin American Foreign Policies in a Shifting Global
Order
Federico Merke
11 Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America: The approaches of Mexico, Chile
and Colombia
Claudia Zilla
12 The International Insertion Strategies of Latin America between Autonomy
and Structural Constraints
Gian Luca Gardini
13 Argentinas Foreign Policy under President Alberto Fernández (2019-23):
Legitimacy, Internal Differences and Foreign Debt
María Cecilia Míguez
14 Brazilian Foreign Policy beyond Itamaratys Insulation and Presidential
Diplomacy: Intermestic Processes under the Bolsonaro and the Third Lula
Administrations
Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
15 Chile One Year into the Government of Gabriel Boric: Foreign Policy and
International Relations in a New Political Period
Raúl Bernal-Meza and Sergio González Pizarro
16 Colombias Foreign Policy Discourses under Gustavo Petro: The Formulation
of a New National Role with a Progressive Populist Approach
Eduardo Pastrana Buelvas and Diego Vera
17 The Perils of Multiple Foreign Policies Mexicos Diminishing Presence in
World Politics
Günther Maihold
PART IV: Conclusions
Concluding Remarks: Latin Americas International Options in the Age of Trump
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Peter Birle and Claudia Zilla
Peter Birle holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Mainz (1995). Since 2001, he has headed the research department of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and taught at Freie Universität Berlin. From April to September 2023, he was the German Director in Presence of the international joint project Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Claudia Zilla is a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, which she joined in 2005. From 2012 to 2019 she headed the SWPs research division The Americas. In 2014/2015 she was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. In 2002/2003 she coordinated the postgraduate programme European Political Studies at the Heidelberg Centre for Latin America of the University of Heidelberg in Santiago de Chile. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Heidelberg.
