What are the main guidelines and consequences of the current policy of the United States towards Latin America? What would be required to steer policy in a direction that would be most beneficial for the development of Latin America? The questions invite a thorough critique of current practices and an examination of national requirements or preconditions for accelerated development and the general role of the US as an obstruction to structural changes that would allow for faster development in the Third World. By definition, any set of US foreign policies that are more compatible with Third World development will have to include a much larger proportion of actions of consideration to others than the current self-consideration ones.
Keywords:
United States, Foreign Policy, Development, Third World, Cooperation
Author Biography
Richard R. Fagen, Universidad de Stanford, Instituto de Estudios Políticos
Instituto de Estudios Políticos de la Universidad de Stanford, es coautor de Cuba : camino abierto y Relaciones políticas entre América Latina y Estados Unidos.
Fagen, R. R. (1976). La política exterior de los Estados Unidos y el desarrollo del Tercer Mundo. Estudios Internacionales, 9(35), p. 3–37. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1976.18789
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