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Foreign Policy begins at home - July 2001

US-Latin American initiatives are driven by domestic, not foreign issues

 

 General Interest and Trends 

Author:  John Price 

 

In the post-cold-war world, US foreign policy is geared more towards satisfying interest groups back home than to pursuing ideology or the defense of international alliances. With the election of George Bush, the least traveled of modern presidents, the inward focus of foreign policy is all the more evident. So it's not surprising that domestic political considerations are behind most new policy initiatives related to Latin America, located as it is in the United States' back yard.

 
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