Overview
- Proposes Principist Pragmatism as a new analytical framework to study foreign policy
- Offers a comprehensive analysis of Mexico’s foreign policy since the country's independence in 1821
- First English-language book to cover Mexican foreign policy in great detail
Part of the book series: Global Foreign Policy Studies (GFPS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
The key characteristics of Mexico’s principled pragmatism in foreign policy are that the nation projects a double-edged diplomacy to cope with external and domestic challenges at the same time. This policy is mainly for domestic consumption, and it is also linked to the type of actors that are involved in the decision-making process and to the kind of topics included in the agenda. This principled pragmatism is related to the nature of theintention: principism is deliberate and pragmatism is forced; and this policy is used to increase Mexico’s international bargaining power.
Reviews
“The concept of principled pragmatism developed in this book has gained strength. Rafael Velazquez applies it here from the nineteenth century to the present day and explains the factors that led to Mexico adopting it. The book shows the evolution, changes, and continuities of the country’s external insertion. It is a very useful analysis to understand Mexico, and it is of great relevance for researchers and students. It helps us understand this country that has had such an active policy defending principles of international law.” (Martha Ardila, Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rafael Velazquez-Flores is Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and International Relations, University of Baja California, Mexico. He has taught International Relations in several Mexican universities at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has been a visiting professor at the Pablo Olavide University in Seville, Spain; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany; and the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, The Netherlands. His research interests focus on Mexican foreign policy, U.S.-Mexican relations, and diplomacy. He is past president of the Mexican Association of International Studies. He is president of the Center for Mexican Foreign Policy Studies, a think tank based in Mexico City dedicated to analyzing Mexico’s foreign policy. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principled Pragmatism in Mexico's Foreign Policy
Book Subtitle: Variables and Assumptions
Authors: Rafael Velazquez-Flores
Series Title: Global Foreign Policy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99573-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99572-0Published: 17 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99575-1Published: 17 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99573-7Published: 16 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-7536
Series E-ISSN: 2731-7544
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 350
Topics: Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Political Science, International Relations Theory