Latin American International Politics: Ambitions, Capabilities, and the National Interest of Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.

1970 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Karl M. Schmitt ◽  
Carlos Alberto Astiz
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
International Politics ◽  
National Interest

Paradiplomacy in Latin America: Between the Policy and the Research Agenda

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Carolina Mauad
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Subnational Governments

Paradiplomacy refers to the international politics of subnational governments, such as cities and states. Latin American subnational actors have been actively performing paradiplomacy actions since the 1990s, fostering a research agenda that is closely connected with the policy practice. In a context of democratization and regional integration, paradiplomacy tends to grow and expose challenges regarding legal and institutional settings within federalist countries while dialoguing with global dynamics.

scholarly journals Simulating a Foreign Policy Dilemma: Considering US Humanitarian Intervention

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (03) ◽  
pp. 682-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Switky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Country ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
National Interest ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Questions

ABSTRACTThe humanitarian impulse in the United States routinely clashes with isolationist sentiment, with appeals to the national interest, and with apathy in and out of government. This class exercise encourages students to explore the contours of the debate over humanitarian intervention with a crisis unfolding in Belagua, a fictitious Latin American country. As the crisis deteriorates, students increasingly feel the tension between wanting to help the at-risk civilian population and avoiding a messy conflict from which the United States could have trouble extracting itself. The project requires students to address key questions about the US role in the Belagua case and to consider what the United States could or should have done in actual situations, such as Rwanda and Syria. Because these crises are likely to occur in the decades to come, this exercise initiates students to the challenges that the United States, as well as the international community, undoubtedly will face.

scholarly journals Iran’s Nuclear Decision Making and the Issue of Nuclear Non-Proliferation in the International System

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Suleiman ◽  
Hamza Shehu Mohammed ◽  
Haruna Mohammed Haruna
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
International Politics ◽  
International System ◽  
National Interest ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Military Diplomacy

This paper studies the reason for Iran’s nuclear decisions making by using the realist approach in the international politics, also the issue of nuclear non-proliferation in the international system and why the international system is totally against the Iran’s nuclear program? The study employs both primary and secondary sources as a method of data collection. The study reveals that that national interest should come first before any collective ones. The process which decisions are made is only determined by self-serving interests of those who possess power in the international system. The realist school of thought provides the critical opinions propounded by various political science scholars on power politics and national interest in the international system. According to Hans Morgenthau a classical realist scholar, society has to be governed generally by objective laws which are rooted in human nature. To him theory is necessary so that to bring order in the international politics, he rejected the idea of liberalism and idealism. Theory has to reflect the objective laws like power, military, diplomacy and norms of the society. First of all we have to look at the human nature which is seen as a rational, we have to examine through individual, group, and societal level because naturally human nature is selfish. Morgenthau defined the state as a collection of human beings who are self-interested, thus the state will have to deal with order interested states in the world politics. The aim of state in the international politics is pursuing national interest which is basically about power. He viewed international politics as a struggle for power.Thus, the realist scholars maintained that in the international politics, states happened to be the key actors and that politics is a conflictual, a struggle for anarchical environment in which nation-states defend on their own capabilities to survive.

Canada and the International Politics of Oil: Latin American Source of Supply and Import Vulnerability in the 1980s

1982 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Haglund
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
International Politics ◽  
American Source ◽  
Le Canada

Le Canada et les politiques internationales sur le pétrole: Source latino-américaine d'approvisionnement et vulnérabilité de l'importation dans les années 1980Cet article étudie le degré de dépendance du Canada vis-à-vis les importations de pétrole brut (mesurée par la proportion de la consommation totale fournie par les importations) et l'étendue de la vulnérabilité découlant de cette dépendance dans l'hypothèse d'un tarissement, à la source, dans les années 1980. Non settlement le Canada est-il devenu de plus en plus dépendant de ses importations de pétrole brut, mais sa dépendance vis-à-vis des pays du Moyen-Orient s'est accrue de manière significative. Cet article tend à prouver que la dépendance du Canada va s'amplifier, du moins à moyen terme et que les fournisseurs du Moyen-Orient (et plus spécifiquement les Etats du golfe persique comme l'Arabie Saoudite) vont continuer à fournir un part de plus en plus grande de notre pétrole brut, à moins que le Canada ne cherche à diversifier ses sources d'approvisionnement. L'alternative la plus probable d'importation de pétrole brut semble être le Mexique. C'est pourquoi cet article cherche à evaluer le potentiel des champs pétrolifères mexicains, au cours de cette décennie, et étudie lesfacteurs qui peuvent inftuencer la politique d'exportation pétrolière de ce pays. L'étude louche aussi la capacité de production et la politique d'exportation du Vénezuéla qui, croit-on, dans les prochaines années, ne sera pas en mesure d'exporter d'aussi grandes quantités de pétrole brut au Canada qu'il ne le fait présentement.

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