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Call for Papers "Disconfigured Democracy: cases from Latin America and Europe" (Number 2, December 2024)

U.S. foreign policy under Donald Trump: Jacksonian populism as a method for confronting Latin America

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Vol. 60 No. 2 (2022): Populism and Foreign Policy
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5338.2022.69201

Abstract

The administration of Donald Trump in the United States consolidated a shift in the Republican Party from neoconservatism that proclaimed international presence to populism, which included the rejection of the elite and globalization. These two factors that unite the literature are not enough for the North American case because it also entails a variable of nativism through which it seeks to protect cultural and political identity. This article analyzes why Latin America becomes part of this Jacksonian populist view since it is the region of the world that would be most directly threatened by its massive presence in the country, speaking Spanish and breaking the hegemony of Anglo-Saxon groups. Furthermore, the existence of instances of international trade in the region required explicit rejections from a political sector that believed in protectionism. In short, unlike other moments of support or indifference to the region, Jacksonian populism is a matter of internal politics and not subject to multilateral discussion with actors on equal terms. In this context, the disdain for the region also implies considering it as their own, and in some sense, they are trying to impose a modified version of the Monroe Doctrine.

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Populism, Foreign Policy, United States, Latin America, Donald Trump

Author Biography

Jaime Baeza Freer, Universidad de Chile

Profesor Asistente, Facultad de Gobierno de la Universidad de Chile. Doctor (Ph.D.) en Ciencia Política, Universidad de Essex, Inglaterra. Master of Arts en Estudios Latinoamericanos, Universidad de Georgetown, Estados Unidos. Periodista, Universidad Diego Portales. Coordinador de la Red de Políticas Públicas.

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Baeza Freer, J. (2022). U.S. foreign policy under Donald Trump: Jacksonian populism as a method for confronting Latin America. Política. Revista De Ciencia Política, 60(2), 129–152. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5338.2022.69201
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