dynamics of u.s.-latin american relations summation
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KEY QUESTIONS
• What is the current state of U.S. relations with Latin America?
• What (if anything) is unique or “new” about the present situation? How much have we seen before?
• Where is the relationship headed? What might the future hold?
BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
• International system based on tacit codes of conduct or “regimes”
• Regimes change according to distributions of power
• U.S. relations with Latin America thus take place within changing contexts (“regimes”)
• Latin America is more important to U.S. than is generally recognized
IMPLICATIONS
• Focus on Latin America as well as U.S.– Coherence of strategic options– Criterion: plausibility, not “success”– Irrelevance of psychological, national-character
explanations
• Thus: Logical dynamic of relationship