Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World

The Handbook of Latin America in the World explains how the Latin American countries have both reacted and contributed to changing international dynamics over the last 30 years. It provides a comprehensive picture of Latin America’s global engagement by looking at specific processes and issues that link governments and other actors, social and economic, within the region and beyond. Leading scholars offer an up-to-date state of the field, theoretically and empirically, thus avoiding a narrow descriptive approach. The Handbook includes a section on theoretical approaches that analyze Latin America’s place in the international political and economic system and its foreign policy making. Other sections focus on the main countries, actors, and issues in Latin America’s international relations. In so doing, the book sheds light on the complexity of the international relations of selected countries, and on their efforts to act multilaterally.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America in the World is a must-have reference for academics, researchers, and students in the fields of Latin American politics, international relations, and area specialists of all regions of the world.

Jorge I. Dominguez is Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico, vice provost for international affairs, special advisor for international studies to the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. A past president of the Latin American Studies Association and a past board chairman of the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities, he currently serves on the editorial boards of Political Science Quarterly, Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica, Cuban Studies, Foro internacional, and Journal of Cold War Studies.

Ana Covarrubias is a faculty member of the Centre for International Studies of El Colegio de Mexico. She obtained her BA in International Relations from El Colegio de Mexico, and an MPhil/DPhil from the University of Oxford. She teaches Latin American international relations, theory of international relations, US and Canadian foreign policy, and Mexican foreign policy. Her research focuses on Mexican foreign policy, especially Mexican-Cuban relations, and she has some work on human rights and foreign policy.