1st Edition

Colombian Agency and the making of US Foreign Policy Intervention by Invitation

By Alvaro Mendez Copyright 2017
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

This book studies a significant event in US relations with Latin America, shedding light on the role of dependent states and their foreign policy agency in the process by which local concerns become intertwined with the dominant state’s foreign policy. Plan Colombia was a large-scale foreign aid programme through which the US intervened in the internal affairs of Colombia, by invitation. It... Read more

Chapter One: Introduction   Chapter Two: Colombian political history  Chapter Three: The narrative mainline  Chapter Four: Case study  Chapter Five: Conclusions

Biography

Alvaro Mendez is a Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the LSE, London. He is also Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Regent's University London and a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, UK.