Latin America and the liberal international order: an agenda for research

Long, Tom

doi:10.1093/ia/iiy188

Cited by 16 publications

(16 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Latin America has largely been ignored in studies of the international liberal order (Long 2018), as well as in studies of its transformation and decline (Maull 2019). A dominating current argues that the shifting global order leaves more space for regional orders and domination (Acharya, Estevadeordal, & Goodman 2019).…”

Section: Venezuela In the Regional And Global Order Upheavalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In few other cases have the permanent tensions in United States' foreign policy towards Latin America been exposed to the extent that they have been in the case of Venezuela. United States' engagement in Latin America has always occurred in a tension between imperialist inclination, expressed in the newly reactivated Monroe doctrine; the acceptance of principles of sovereignty and social rights upheld by Latin American states; and a common general, although often side-lined, consensus on the principle of democracy (Long 2018). With the entering of the Trump administration, short term domestic political concerns received priority over long term strategic visions.…”

Section: Venezuela In the Regional And Global Order Upheavalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, as the country with the largest reservoir of oil and an important oil industry that attracts capital from around the world, the future of Venezuela's oil industry will continue to be important for global markets. Several historians have shown how the liberal norms to a significant degree have been shaped from the margins, including Latin America (Grandin 2012, Long 2018, Helleiner 2019). This has occurred both through the active promotion of specific norms by Latin American states (including human and social rights), but also through being what Grandin has called an "empire's workshop" (Grandin 2006).…”

Section: Venezuela In the Regional And Global Order Upheavalmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

The crisis in Venezuela: Drivers, transitions, and pathways

Bull

Rosales

2020

ERLACS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this introduction, we present the main contributions of this special collection, which aim to open the analysis to the broader political and economic processes that underpin Venezuela's recent crisis. We highlight the transition from a limited democracy to an authoritarian regime and some of the potential pathways to democratization. We further explain how the political transition that occurred in the last decade was influenced by structural conditions of the Venezuelan economy, elaborating on the collapse of the Venezuelan rentier economy and some of the emerging processes that feed the strengthening of authoritarianism. Lastly, we analyse how these transformations have been affected by a changing international order with emerging actors and dynamics in a global order upheaval. The articles in this special collection locate in Venezuela's crisis on broader theoretical discussions rooted in comparative and historical perspectives.

show abstract

Section: Venezuela In the Regional And Global Order Upheavalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Venezuela In the Regional And Global Order Upheavalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Venezuela In the Regional And Global Order Upheavalmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The crisis in Venezuela: Drivers, transitions, and pathways

Bull

Rosales

2020

ERLACS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Though Latin America is rarely central to debates about the LIO, IR scholars have underscored Latin American contributions to elements of global governance and international order: international law, multilateralism, international organizations, and liberal norms regarding human rights and democracy (Long 2018). But what informed these contributions and shaped Latin American diplomatic traditions?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Republican internationalism: the nineteenth-century roots of Latin American contributions to international order

Long

Schulz

2021

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Although Latin America plays a minimal role in debates on the 'liberal international order', scholars recognize the region's influence on international law, norms, and institutions. We contend that these Latin American contributions to international order spring from a tradition of 'republican internationalism', rooted in the region's domestic political traditions and practices. Republican principles such as the separation of power, association, and the rule of law had important corollaries in Latin American international relations, including sovereign equality, confederation and regional cooperation, and international law and arbitration. These republican internationalist ideas shaped Latin America's diplomatic traditions and its contributions to international order in the nineteenth century and beyond. Attention to republican internationalism and Latin American contributions demonstrates how actors beyond the North Atlantic shaped the origins of international order. This study also advances debates on the sources of the liberal international order by demonstrating the distinctive influence of republican ideas and practices.

show abstract

“…It is noteworthy that when applying this concept to US-Latin American relations, Ikenberry discards strategic restraint, as he views relations in the region as "crudely imperial" (Ikenberry, 2011: 27; see also Long, 2018Long, : 1376. Similarly, Mares (1997: 197) sees the Americas and their respective "subsystems" as dominated by balance-of-power concerns.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Soft Balancing, Binding or Bandwagoning? Understanding Institutional Responses to Power Disparities in the Americas

Levick

Schulz

2020

Can J Pol Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

What strategies will states pursue in managing their relations with more powerful neighbours? International Relations scholarship identifies a wide range of policy options open to “secondary states,” including soft balancing, bandwagoning and institutional binding. We provide a conceptual framework to distinguish between these similar and often conflated institutional strategies on the basis of two dimensions: threat perception and inclusiveness. We then apply this framework to the inter-American system. Analyzing original data on treaty action between 1946 and 2015, we find that secondary states’ adherence to multilateral agreements increases when the United States participates and when states do not perceive the hegemon to be a threat. These findings suggest that institutional binding captures the dynamics of inter-American cooperation more adequately than either soft balancing or bandwagoning: states balance against perceived threats but bind their friends.

show abstract

Latin America and the liberal international order: an agenda for research

Abstract: Please refer to the repository item page, detailed above, for the most recent bibliographic citation information. If a published version is known of, the repository item page linked to above, will contain details on accessing it.

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

The crisis in Venezuela: Drivers, transitions, and pathways

The crisis in Venezuela: Drivers, transitions, and pathways

Republican internationalism: the nineteenth-century roots of Latin American contributions to international order

Soft Balancing, Binding or Bandwagoning? Understanding Institutional Responses to Power Disparities in the Americas

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About