Latin American Relations with the Middle East

<p><em>Latin American Relations with the Middle East </em>surveys the dealings of ten Latin American and Caribbean states – Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Peru Mexico Uruguay and Venezuela – with the Middle East.</p><p>This volume examins these states' external behavior at both an empirical and conceptual level. Empirically authors seek to examine Latin American and Caribbean foreign policies towards the Middle East in four dimensions: diplomatic attention; trade and investment (including the energy issue); development cooperation; security matters/intelligence and relationship with multilateralism (Iran Palestine and Syria). Case studies are selectively deployed to observe the influence of unfavorable circumstances that have increased since 2015 such as domestic turmoil wars economic crisis ideological bias and international constraints. Conceptually the book enhances the theoretical framework for understanding Southern countries’ foreign policies through fomenting dialogue with Latin American and Caribbean regional literature on foreign policy. Authors inquire about how decision-making processes occur and uncover how influential actors help to test the main hypotheses of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA).</p><p>Forging essential new paths of inquiry this book is a must read for researchers of International Relations Foreign Policy South-South Relations Latin American Politics and Middle Eastern Politics.</p>