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British Foreign Policy in the Caribbean Basin 1938–1945: Oil, Nationalism and Relations with the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

John Knape
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The formulation of foreign policy is at best an inchoate process. The very term implies an orthodoxy of identification, pursuit and maintenance of perceived interests which is often patently lacking in reality. When a nation is beset by a declining capacity to exert influence in a particular region as a result both of competition from other powers and of incipient assertiveness on the part of local interests, the foreign-policy process may be reduced to one of administering ad hoc responses to particular developments which appear to lack any overall rationale.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , November 1987 , pp. 279 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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19 In 1944, the British Legation in Caracas was upgraded to Embassy status and accordingly H.M.G. was now represented by an Ambassador rather than by a Minister. Similar changes were made at the same time in Mexico City, Lima, Bogotá and Montevideo.

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