Latin American Realignment

Latin America (Klaveren , 1992 , 41 . Thus the influence of the region to international system will depend on specific strategies , internal , economic and political environment in which the strategies will be based upon (Klaveren , 1992 , 41

Each country will have to mobilize economic , political and strategic resources so as to impact the global system otherwise they will be isolated (Klaveren , 1992 , 41 . The individual country foreign policy must adapt to changing international system and that scarcity of resources demands careful and selective decisions on approaches and choices to make (Klaveren , 1992 , 41

. It is worth noting that although sound external strategies are good they must be backed with domestic conditions for them to flourish (Klaveren , 1992 , 41

THE EMERGING REALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE US AND LATIN AMERICA AND WITHIN THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES

The new emergence in realignment comes in the wake of global changes and the different administration of the US over time . Varas (1992 ) explain that the gradual integration of Canada , Mexico and some Caribbean economies in the North American geo-economics space led to erosion of single Latin American region

The post Latin American will be characterized with sub region system with different economic , political and strategic weight . There foreign policy , he adds , that was once useful for hegemonic alliance is now obsolete and new paradigm is necessary to address regional and international changes (Varas , 1992 ,

.48 . Within the Latin American countries should use broad based approach , which takes account of political , economic and cultural orientations . The United States have now transited from a hegemonic and coercive control to partnership and cooperation control . In this regard , according to Varas (1992 ) the U .S was no longer dominant in the international system as well as had limited resources to control and support the hemispheric countries

Thus policies of free trade...