Bureaucratic Foreign Policy of Obama's Administration in Latin America

Authors

• Cyrus Faizee  1
• hadi aalami fariman 2

1 . Assistant Professor of Regional Studies, University of Tehran

2 Ph.D. of Regional Studies, graduated from University of Tehran

 10.22067/IRLIP.2021.21431.0

Abstract

The current study examines the Obama administration’s foreign policy in Latin America. The research investigates the factors, components, and criteria of the Obama administration's foreign policy in the region. The study hypothesizes that the Obama administration’s Latin America foreign policy falls within the liberal internationalist ideology. Obama’s engagement diplomacy had a profound and different impact on the region's political and economic structures. For example, a strategic shift in relations with Cuba after 70 years of conflict made the US a positive image. In the next step, the Obama administration accepted immigrants from Latin America based on selecting candidates and elites, mainly from the students. The decision-making process in the Obama administration comes first to his former theoretical attitudes and then back to the views of Democratic

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US Foreign Policy towards Latin America: A Comparison of Obama and Trump Administrations

		The study of this present dissertation begins with a brief study of the foreign policy of all States of the United States to Latin America and then stresses study of the two recent administration, the administration of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The policy of the United States and, consequently, administrations in relation to Latin America is diverse and includes various aspects and components. On this basis, both the Obama administration has been elected the Democratic agent and the Trump administration as the Republican agent, each of which has taken special and unique steps in the field of foreign policy toward Latin America. Main questions about the foreign policy of Obama and Trump are to be addressed, and the differences and similarities between the two administrations will be examined in the form of theoretical approaches equal to the agent-structure theory, and decision-making theory. The main question is how the United States foreign policy toward Latin America has been in the administrations of Obama and Trump? The main hypothesis of the research is that the foreign policy of the United States in Latin America during the Obama era, according to the Democratic, hemispherical approach, based on soft and peaceful behavior, and during the Trump era due to the anti- hemispherical approach of the Republicans, was hard and militant. Regarding the objectives of the dissertation, it should be noted that the nature of the field of study of regional cognition is studied, so this dissertation focuses on the inherent nature of the field of American studies and is based on existing regional realities. The research method is upon comparative politics and even in the form of combined-comparative method. The research organization has been made up of five chapters and a conclusion, and the study on the foreign policy of the Obama and Trump administrations will focus on the Obama administration's change strategy and immigration, and the construction of the boundary wall and other important issues in the field.https://lib1.ut.ac.ir:8443/faces/search/bibliographic/biblioFullView.jspx?_afPfm=-gs2s90q62