Since the beginning of US President Donald Trump’s second term, the already volatile international order has faced increasingly disruptive developments and fundamental challenges. This volume outlines and analyses the role of Latin America as a whole, and of individual countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, in the new global (dis)order.
The book is divided into three parts. The first contains contributions on regional dynamics in Latin America: What do global developments mean for Latin America’s development options? What are the consequences for Latin American regionalism? Why have regional democracy clauses repeatedly proved ineffective? The second part examines the role of external actors in Latin America: the USA, China, the European Union and Russia. The third section analyses the foreign policies of single states and asks what role concepts such as ‘active non-alliance’ and ‘feminist foreign policy’ play for Latin America. In their concluding remarks, the editors analyse the potential consequences of Trump’s policies for the topics covered in the volume after the first 100 days of his Administration.
The volume provides an up-to-date, theory-based examination of key issues in Latin American international relations and is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers and others interested in Latin American international relations.
Edited by:
Peter Birle,
Claudia Zilla
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9781032696966
ISBN 10: 1032696966
Series: Europa Regional Perspectives
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 October 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
The Editors and Contributors Introduction Peter Birle and Claudia Zilla PART I: Regional and International Dynamics 1 Changes in the Global Economy and New Challenges for Development Policy in Latin America Andrés Musacchio 2 New Regional Dynamics in Latin America or Old Wine in New Bottles? Detlef Nolte 3 Electoral Cycles and Presidentialism. Advantages or Disadvantages for Latin American Regionalism? Susanne Gratius 4 Why Latin American Regional Democracy Clauses Have Fallen Short of Expectations Brigitte Weiffen 5 Latin American Regionalism: From Contestation to Depoliticisation José Antonio Sanahuja PART II: The Role of External Actors 6 Latin America and the United States in the New World Disorder: Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Multiplicity Jochen Kleinschmidt 7 China in Latin America – Strategic Engagement and Patient Diplomacy Benjamin Creutzfeldt 8 Latin America-Russia Relations: The War in Ukraine as a Turning Point? Alexandra Sitenko 9 The European Union and Latin America. Towards a Renewal of the Bi-regional Partnership? Peter Birle PART III: The Foreign Policies of Latin American Governments 10 Reshaping Priorities: Latin American Foreign Policies in a Shifting Global Order Federico Merke 11 Feminist Foreign Policy in Latin America: The approaches of Mexico, Chile and Colombia Claudia Zilla 12 The International Insertion Strategies of Latin America between Autonomy and Structural Constraints Gian Luca Gardini 13 Argentina’s Foreign Policy under President Alberto Fernández (2019-23): Legitimacy, Internal Differences and Foreign Debt María Cecilia Míguez 14 Brazilian Foreign Policy beyond Itamaraty’s Insulation and Presidential Diplomacy: Intermestic Processes under the Bolsonaro and the Third Lula Administrations Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann 15 Chile One Year into the Government of Gabriel Boric: Foreign Policy and International Relations in a New Political Period Raúl Bernal-Meza and Sergio González Pizarro 16 Colombia’s Foreign Policy Discourses under Gustavo Petro: The Formulation of a New National Role with a Progressive Populist Approach Eduardo Pastrana Buelvas and Diego Vera 17 The Perils of Multiple Foreign Policies – Mexico’s Diminishing Presence in World Politics Günther Maihold PART IV: Conclusions Concluding Remarks: Latin America’s International Options in the Age of Trump 2.0 Peter Birle and Claudia Zilla
Peter Birle holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Mainz (1995). Since 2001, he has headed the research department of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin and taught at Freie Universität Berlin. From April to September 2023, he was the German Director in Presence of the international joint project Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) based in São Paulo, Brazil. Claudia Zilla is a Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, which she joined in 2005. From 2012 to 2019 she headed the SWP’s research division The Americas. In 2014/2015 she was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. In 2002/2003 she coordinated the postgraduate programme ‘European Political Studies’ at the Heidelberg Centre for Latin America of the University of Heidelberg in Santiago de Chile. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Heidelberg.
