This book offers an up-to-date analysis of the foreign policies of Latin American Nations and its international positioning in world politics, evaluating the impact of changes in the global community, on the hemisphere, and on individual states.

Heraldo Munoz is the Chilean ambassador to Brazil. Joseph S. Tulchin is director of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International centre for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

The Dominant Themes in Latin American Foreign Relations: An Introduction -- Collective Action for Democracy in the Americas -- Understanding Latin American Foreign Policies -- Politics, Bureaucracy, and Foreign Policy in Chile -- Cuba Adapts to a Brave New World -- Central America and the United States -- The Fate of a Small State -- Mexican Foreign Policy in the 1990s -- Continuity and Change in Argentine Foreign Policy -- The Foreign Policy of Brazil: From the Democratic Transition to Its Consolidation -- Postplantation Societies and World Order: Some Reflections on the Caribbean Predicament -- Soviet Union-Latin American Relations: A Historical Perspective -- About the Contributors -- About the Book