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Regionalism and Domestic Politics: U.S.-Latin American Trade Policy in the Bush Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard E. Feinberg
Richard E. Feinberg*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
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Abstract

With remarkable success, Latin Americans have sought to impose their free trade policy agenda on a very reluctant and internally fractious United States. They have an ally in President George W. Bush, whose senior appointments notably support hemispheric trade integration even as political pressures sometimes have yielded protectionist outcomes. Bush's trade negotiator, Robert Zoellick, pursues a doctrine of competitive liberalization while accepting some linkage between trade and social and political goals. In negotiating the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the administration will have to balance many domestic pressures without alienating Latin America. Ultimately, FTAA ratification will signal a new Western Hemisphere economic-security alliance for the twenty-first century.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , Winter 2002 , pp. 127 - 151
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Copyright © University of Miami 2002

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