This book is a conceptual and empirical contribution to the foreign policy analysis on Latin American countries in various senses. It offers a comparative perspective of ten Latin American cases through a well-crafted research design based on process tracing and various qualitative methodologies, transcending the traditional single case study approach dominant in the literature. As an edited book coauthored by recognized Latin American scholars, it clearly reflects the advances in meaningful academic collaboration in the field of international relations across the region, a very stimulating and promising trend. Given the wide range of cases and issue areas covered by this volume, it is also a very useful and long needed teaching tool.

The main purpose of this book is to analyze the foreign policy of key Latin American countries through the pragmatic, principled, and neoliberal approach. The argument is that those new administrations resorted to these three perspectives in their external nexus in order to cope with domestic and external conditions, and further national development. For each case, there were also patterns of change and continuity in their foreign policy. Therefore, the book examines these tendencies in the new administrations. The countries that are included in the book are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. They are representative nations in terms of economic power, political stability, geographical size, number of population, and importance in the regional power structure.

This book is mainly oriented to students of International Relations and Political Sciences, but it is also suitable for people who are interested in Latin American issues and Social Sciences. The text will also be useful for professors and researchers on Latin American foreign policy topics. Moreover, diplomats, foreign policy decision makers, journalists and general public could be interested in this subject. The main contribution of the book is that each chapter analyzes regime changes, economic policy, norms and ideas that shape the foreign policy decision-making process in those Latin American countries.