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Latin American Relations with the Middle East surveys the dealings of ten Latin American and Caribbean states – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela – with the Middle East. This volume examins these states' external behavior at both an empirical and conceptual level. Empirically, authors seek to examine Latin American and Caribbean foreign policies towards the Middle East in four dimensions: diplomatic attention; trade and investment (including the energy issue); development cooperation; security matters/intelligence, and relationship with multilateralism (Iran, Palestine, and Syria). Case studies are selectively deployed to observe the influence of unfavorable circumstances that have increased since 2015, such as domestic turmoil, wars, economic crisis, ideological bias, and international constraints. Conceptually, the book enhances the theoretical framework for understanding Southern countries’ foreign policies, through fomenting dialogue with Latin American and Caribbean regional literature on foreign policy. Authors inquire about how decision-making processes occur, and uncover how influential actors help to test the main hypotheses of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). Forging essential new paths of inquiry, this book is a must read for researchers of International Relations, Foreign Policy, South-South Relations, Latin American Politics, and Middle Eastern Politics.

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The global reach of Latin America and Caribbean is probed and pushed in this work that brings together luminaries of International Relations that the Anglophone world needs to read more of. Whether from Brasilia or Buenos Aires, Mexico City or Montevideo, the state agendas they study in relation to the Middle East and North Africa reveal the every-changing cardinal directions of foreign policy in a world where metropoles and margins continue to mix and metamorphose. John Tofik Karam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The global reach of Latin America and Caribbean is probed and pushed in this work that brings together luminaries of International Relations that the Anglophone world needs to read more of. Whether from Brasilia or Buenos Aires, Mexico City or Montevideo, the state agendas they study in relation to the Middle East and North Africa reveal the every-changing cardinal directions of foreign policy in a world where metropoles and margins continue to mix and metamorphose. John Tofik Karam, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Marta Tawil Kuri is research professor at the Center for International Studies at El Colegio de México. Élodie Brun is research professor at the Center for International Studies at El Colegio de México.

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