Howard J. Wiarda - The Iberian-Latin American Connection: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy

This book is especially timely as Latin America is diversifying its international connections, Spain and Portugal are seeking to expand their interests and presence in Latin America, and U.S. policy toward both regions has become increasingly complex. Contributors trace the history of Iberian-Latin American relations from colonial times and then examine the cultural, economic, political, and strategic ties that currently exist between the two regions. Particular attention is focused on the impact of Iberian-Latin American relations on U.S. foreign policy. The book concludes with a section of country-specific case studies.

Howard J. Wiarda is resident scholar and director of the Center for Hemispheric Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is coeditor of Latin American Politics and Development (Westview, 1985).

Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy

edited by Howard J. Wiarda

First published 1986 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2019 by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1986 by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 86-50945

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29294-2 (hbk)

This volume is a culmination of a three-year study carried out by AEI's Center for Hemispheric Studies on the domestic transition in Spain and Portugal, on Spanish foreign policy, and on Iberian-Latin American relations. We are publishing volumes on all three of these themes; in addition, we have recently issued volumes on both Spain and Portugal in AEI's acclaimed At the Polls series.

's Center for Hemispheric Studies, under the directorship of Howard J. Wiarda, has been concerned from the beginning not only with Latin American relations but also with Iberia, Southern Europe, and U.S. foreign policy more generally. This study, among others, demonstrates our innovative research in crossing diverse geographic and regional boundaries.

This work was made possible by a generous grant from the Tinker Foundation. We think it appropriate here not just to issue a pro forma word of thanks but to single out that foundation and its dynamic president Martha Muse for a special word of commendation. Miss Muse and Tinker have been stalwart supporters of research devoted to Iberian and Latin American affairs and have pioneered in the support of studies of new approaches and new themes in these areas. We strongly commend their efforts and are proud to have participated in these activities.

This study is part of a continuing series of projects, conferences, seminars, and publications at on vital foreign policy concerns in areas of strategic importance to us.

Paul W. McCracken
President
American Enterprise Institute

The American Enterprise Institute has long had an interest in Iberian and Mediterranean affairs, as well as in those of Latin America. scholars and authors have published books and articles about Spain and Portugal. We have never looked specifically, however, at the important and growing relations between Iberia and Latin America. That is the focus of this book.

Although our topic here is Iberia and Latin America and their complex interrelations, we are also interested in the effect of these relations on U.S. foreign policy. We have structured this book, therefore, so that it has a triangular transatlantic focus: Iberia, Latin America, and the United States. Hence we included chapters on U.S.-Spanish relations and the changing nature of U.S.-Latin American relations, as well as the main concentration on Iberia and Latin America. An effort is made to tie these several threads together in the conclusion.

In a large study of this sort numerous debts are incurred. We wish to thank the Tinker Foundation for its financial and institutional support. In recent years, Tinker, through its president Martha Muse and program director Kenneth Maxwell, has probably done more to assist the cause of Iberian and Latin American studiesand the relations between themthan any other agency. The American Enterprise Institute contributed immense financial, institutional, moral, and intellectual support to the project. My colleague at , Mark Falcoff, helped stimulate the thinking and formulate the intellectual concepts that went into the project. Our research assistant Janine Perfit and secretaries Pamela Robertson and Louise Skillings contributed, to this and numerous other projects, great amounts of time, good will, and hard work. In two major conferences held on this theme and in smaller lunches, seminars, and conversations, the contributors to this book and many in the Washington policy community added immeasurably to the richness of our understanding. Numerous friends and colleagues in Spain and Portugal, as well as in Latin America, also contributed. The conference staff, the kitchen staff, and others at have, as always, efficiently and in friendly fashion, provided the logistics, the fuel, and the sound advice that help make large-scale projects work.

To all these persons and agencies we express our heartfelt thanks, while also absolving them of any faults or errors the book might still contain.

In the course of this project we were saddened to learn of the death of one of our contributors, Professor Thomas G. Powell. Professor Powell attended the early conference on this project and heroically completed a superb chapter on Spain's relations with Mexico. We are very pleased to be able to include Professor Powell's chapter in the volume but regret that he did not live to see it in published form. We extend our condolences to his friends and family.

Howard J. Wiarda

Howard R. Penniman, ed., Portugal at the Polls: The Elections of 1980 and 1983 (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, forthcoming); Howard R. Penniman, ed., Spain at the Polle: The Elections of 1977, 1979, and 1982 (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1985); Howard J. Wiarda, Corporatism and Development: The Portuguese Experience (Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977); and Wiarda, The Transition to Democracy in Spain and Portugal (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, forthcoming).