Latin American Foreign Policies towards the Middle East

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Marta Tawil Kuri

   Pages 1-9

3. How Latin America Met the Arab World: Toward a Political Economy of Arab–Latin American Relations

   • Kevin Funk

   Pages 11-36

4. Brazil’s Relations with Middle Eastern Countries: A Diplomacy in Search for Constancy (2003–2014)

   • Élodie Brun

   Pages 37-57

5. Chilean Foreign Policy Toward Arab Countries: Between Trade Diplomacy and the Affirmation of Principles

   • Cecilia Baeza

   Pages 59-76

6. Multipolarity Under Construction: New Paths and Difficult Balances in the Argentina–Middle East Relation During the Kirchner Governments

   • Mariela Cuadro

   Pages 77-98

7. Venezuela and the Middle East Under Hugo Chávez (1999–2013): Strategic Continuities and Ideological Preferences

   • Angel Blanco Sorio

   Pages 99-134

8. Colombian Fragile Foreign Relations with the Middle East: Vested Interests, 2000–2014

   • Pilar Vargas Arana

   Pages 135-155

9. Ecuador and the Middle East: Counter-Hegemony, Anti-interventionism and Sovereign Wealth Funds

   • Carlos R. Espinosa

   Pages 157-178

10. Bolivia’s Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East (2000–2015): Promoting a Populist and Radical Agenda Abroad

    • Waltraud Q. Morales

    Pages 179-200

11. Between Continuity and Change: Relations Between Costa Rica and the Middle East

    • Sergio Iván Moya Mena, Carlos Humberto Cascante Segura

    Pages 201-221

12. Nicaraguan Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East

    • JoAnn Fagot Aviel

    Pages 223-249

13. Mexico’s Policy Toward the Middle East: From Equidistance to Distance

    • Marta Tawil Kuri

    Pages 251-275

14. Conclusions

    • Marta Tawil Kuri

    Pages 277-286

15. Back Matter

    Pages 287-296

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This volume surveys the interplay between state and non-state actors in Latin American foreign policies and attitudes towards the Middle East in the twenty-first century. How will domestic instability and international tensions affect the choices and behavior of Latin American countries towards the Arab world? The chapters here offer insight into this and similar questions, as well as a comparative value in analyzing countries beyond those specifically discussed. Common topics in policy making are considered–namely, Israel and Palestine, Iran, the Gulf countries, and the Arab "Spring”–as authors from distinct disciplines examine the crucial relation between ends and means on the one hand, and foreign policy actions and context on the other.

• Foreign policies of Latin American states
• Arab-Latin American Relations
• Iran-Latin American Relations
• Israel-Latin American Relations
• Latin America and the Arab Spring
• Political-economy of Arab-Latin American relations
• America
• comparative politics
• culture
• international relations
• Latin America
• latin american culture
• Middle East
• political science
• political theory
• politics
• latin american politics

• El Colegio De Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

  Marta Tawil Kuri

Marta Tawil Kuri is Research Professor at the Center for International Studies at the College of Mexico, where she teaches on Mexico’s relations with the Middle East, international relations, comparative foreign policy, and contemporary Middle East politics. She obtained her Master’s degree in Comparative Politics of the Arab and Muslim world and her PhD in Political Science and International Relations, both at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris. She is the author of Syria: Regional Power, Legitimacy and Foreign Policy, 1996-2015 and co-editor of The End of a Secular Dream: Religion and International Relations at the Turn of the Century. She is a member of RIMAAL and of the board of the Mexican Association for International Studies.

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