U.s. Foreign Policy Towards Latin America In 1990s: Continuity Or Change

Résumé: This research is concerned with the investigation of American foreign policy under the concept of continuity or change. This research work analyses American foreign policy towards Latin America in 1990s, i.e. after the end of Cold War; the latter was an ideological war between United States of America, and Soviet Union as two rival powers each of which competing with the other over world leadership. Under this kind of rivalry, some countries such as in Latin America were victimized under the pretext of fighting and containing Communism, so America conducted a direct interventionist policy towards the region. By the end of Cold War the Soviet Union collapsed, and its threat ceased to exist. The world witnessed a shift from unipolarity to polarity, i.e. American leadership over the world; hence, the American foreign policy towards Latin America in 1990s is based on this data; the researchers hypothesize that the collapse of Soviet Union had significantly impacted United States foreign policy in the sense that it was obliged to change it, i.e. change in foreign policy strategy from hostile, direct, armed, and interventionist policy to cooperative policy. By the end of this research, the researchers came to prove their main hypothesis that America changed its policy strategy once the Soviet Union ceased to exist in Latin America added to that the validity of their set of sub-hypotheses which confirm that: Foreign multidimensional competition over Latin America, movements of democrazations in the region added to United States distant past of support of dictatorships, the growing of Anti-Americanism in Latin America, and the existence of other profitable spheres of influence other than Latin America impacted United States policy makers to change their foreign policy strategy. Finally, researchers answered their main question that American foreign policy towards Latin America in 1990s is a continuity not a change; what changed is the strategy of foreign policy.

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