Obama and the Bolivarian Agenda for the Americas

Bibliographic Data

ID7905145
AuthorsDaniel Hellinger (Webster University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume38
Issue4
Pages46-62
Publication date2011-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0094582x11406209
OpenAlexW2013688464
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited7

President Barack Obama’s campaign rhetoric suggested a significant shift away from the militarist intervention practiced by U.S. administrations since the Reagan presidency, and his emphasis on multilateral diplomacy was endorsed by some key foreign policy elites. Focusing on home-grown obstacles to the hoped-for change in Latin American policy, such as domestic ideologies and narrow corporate interests, may underestimate the role of Latin American resistance and of the global shifts that have presented alternatives to the multilateral diplomacy of the OAS and the regional economic integration of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas. The Bolivarian agenda offers a direct challenge to neoliberal globalization as promoted by the United States under presidents of both parties. While for a number of reasons it is unlikely to bring U.S. hegemony in Latin America to an end, it has facilitated alternative forms of cooperation for economic integration and security, and this poses a significant dilemma for the Obama administration

Dilemma · Diplomacy · Foreign policy · Globalization · Hegemony · Latin Americans · Militarism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Rhetoric · Sociology · Agriculture and Social Issues · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Public Administration

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