Gian Luca Gardini - Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism

LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICIES

BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND PRAGMATISM

Edited by

Gian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert

LATIN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICIES
Copyright Gian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert, 2011.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Latin American foreign policies : between ideology and pragmatism / edited by Gian Luca Gardini & Peter Lambert.

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ISBN 9780230110953

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We could not have completed this project without the help of a number of individuals and institutions. We are extremely grateful to our editor, Robyn Curtis, for having faith in this book, for her advice and encouragement, and for her first-class editorial work. Our colleagues in our department in Bath, especially Richard Whitman and Adrian Hyde-Price, deserve a mention for their support and for engaging with and challenging some of the material. The same goes for our students, whose interest in Latin American International Relations spurred us to produce a book that might answer some of their thoughtful and challenging questions about foreign policy in the new millennium. We must also thank the many scholars who very generously shared their thoughts with us during the development of this volume, not least the contributors to this volume, who we would also like to thank for their enthusiasm, as well as their patience when dealing with our constant demands and requests for further amendments and changes. We are also deeply indebted to the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) and the Political Studies Association (PSA), both of which allowed us to host panels that not only stimulated debate and helped our ideas, but ultimately resulted in this volume. Gian Luca Gardini would specifically like to thank the British Council, the Banco Santander, and the University of Bath for generously supporting his research. He would also like to thank George Lunt for his encouragement and Maria Regina Soares de Lima, Gelson Fonseca, Jos Raul Perales, and Olivier Dabne for their comments on earlier drafts. Peter Lambert would like to thank the British Academy for its generous support for his fieldwork in Paraguay in August 2007, as well as Jos Rivarola, Mati da Costa, and Fernando Masi for their help and advice during two separate trips to Paraguay in 2007 and 2009.

Last, but by no means least, we must thank our families for their support and patience. In particular, Peter would like to thank Felix, who patiently put up with his dads obsession with a seemingly endless editing process during the first three months of his life.

Gian Luca Gardini & Peter Lambert
University of Bath
August 2010

Larry Birns and Alex Sanchez, Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Larry Birns is the Director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Educated at Bates, Columbia, and Oxford, he has published hundreds of articles on U.S.-Latin American relations. After a career in college teaching, he was appointed public affairs officer for the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America in Santiago de Chile.

W. Alejandro Sanchez is a Research Fellow for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. His work focuses on security, military issues, and geopolitics.

Dr Ronald Bruce St John
Ronald Bruce St John obtained his MA and PhD in International Relations from the University of Denver. He has acted as a consultant for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, U.S. government agencies, the Associated Press, Washington Post, and The New York Times. Working as an independent scholar and foreign policy analyst, he has published over a dozen books, contributed to many others, and written more than 300 articles and reviews, including his latest book, Toledos Peru: Vision and Reality (University Press of Florida, 2010). His areas of expertise include Andean America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Prof. David Close, Memorial University of Newfoundland
David Close is Professor of Political Science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He has specialised in Nicaraguan politics for more than 25 years. In that time he has written two books, edited or coedited three others, and produced numerous articles and chapters on the subject.

Dr Ana Covarrubias, Colegio de Mexico
Ana Covarrubias is a faculty member of the Centre for International Studies of El Colegio de Mxico. She obtained her BA in International Relations from El Colegio de Mxico, and an MPhil/DPhil from the University of Oxford. She teaches Latin American international relations, Mexican foreign policy, and theory of international relations. Her research focuses on Mexican foreign policy, principally toward Cuba and Central America.

Prof. Joaqun Fermandois, Catholic University of Chile
Joaqun Fermandois is currently professor of Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Chile. He obtained his PhD from the University of Seville, and in 1989 he was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Prof. Fermandois was visiting scholar at Georgetown University, Hamburg University, and the Free University of Berlin. He is the author of Mundo y fin de mundo. Chile en la poltica mundial 19002004.

Dr Gian Luca Gardini, University of Bath
Gian Luca Gardini is Lecturer in International Relations and Latin American Politics at the University of Bath, where he is also Deputy Director of the European Research Institute. Dr Gardini obtained his MPhil and PhD in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. His research interests cover the international relations of Latin America, Argentine and Brazilian foreign policy, regional integration, and international relations theory.

Prof. Miriam Gomes Saraiva, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Miriam Gomes Saraiva is Professor in International Relations at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She did her PhD in Political Science, at the Complutense University, Madrid, and she was visiting fellow at the European University Institute (20022003). Her publications and research lie in the field of regional integration and foreign policy.

Prof. Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham
Tony Kapcia is currently Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Centre for Research on Cuba (and the Cuba Research Forum) at the University of Nottingham where he is also Head of the Hispanic and Latin American Studies Department. Prof. Kapcia has researched and written on Cuban history and contemporary politics since 1971, and in 1999 he was appointed