A Pawn in the Great Game. Latin America and the Emerging Global Order
- Institution: University of Warsaw (Poland)
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8216-5113
- Year of publication: 2024
- Source: Show
- Pages: 125-140
- DOI Address: https://doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202446
- PDF: ppsy/53-4/ppsy2024408.pdf
The main assumption of the article is to demonstrate that Latin America, while underrated in the discussion on the international order, has had a significant impact on its functioning. Upon the emergence of a new global balance of power, the region must redefine its international position, which it does primarily by pragmatic alignment with the dynamic international reality and searching for new channels of global insertion. This way, it seeks to minimize the threat posed by the growing rivalry of superpowers and to possibly maximize the resulting potential profits. The article relies on the assumption that Latin America’s activity in the face of the formation of the global order is driven primarily by the overarching goal of the foreign policy of the countries of the region, which is to ensure their autonomy. At the same time, Latin America, rooted both in the Western world and identifying with the Global South, sought to turn its unfortunate perception as a peripheral area into an advantage of sorts, offering concepts such as Active Non-Alignment, going far beyond the passive acceptance of international reality.
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