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This paper surveys what is new in the study of the international diffusion of policies. We critically review the most recent contributions on the topic, trying to identify the substantive & methodological novelties in this literature. Regarding mechanisms, we argue that whereas there is acknowledgement that they overlap, there is hardly any attention to the way in which they interact (either with other mechanisms of diffusion or with domestic factors).More generally, mechanisms are studied separately & are not integrated into a coherent model of diffusion. Regarding empirics, we argue that existing studies have concentrated on policies that seem to have diffused in an explosive way despite the fact that both theory & methods are appropriate to study any type of diffusion. We argue that new empirical work should tackle the difficult issue of how to better operationalize alternative diffusion mechanisms. More attention should also be given to modeling diffusion processes to account for the fact that causal patterns may be highly heterogeneous in time & space. Finally, we show that the last wave of studies on diffusion may have had the unintended consequence of opening up new questions. Some of these questions are about the mechanisms that initiate vs. accelerate the diffusion of policies & institutions, why policies diffuse in clusters rather than globally, why some policies diffuse faster than others, & why some policies do not diffuse at all. Adapted from the source document.

Las relaciones entre México y Cuba habían permanedico apartadas de los enfoques ideológicos, lo que permitió el desarrollo de una relación bilateral estable y constante. La política del gobierno de México se caracterizó por un discurso oficial de apoyo al proceso cubano y a su libre determinación; durante años México fue el principal inversionista latinoamericano en la isla y a su vez Cuba era el segundo socio de México en el Caribe, sin embargo, las cifras eran muy bajas. Según el autor, producto de las presiones de Estados Unidos, esta política entre México y Cuba ha cambiado; hoy el gobierno mexicano se encuentra subordinado a Washington, lo que ha significado un distanciamiento con Cuba y toda América Latina. Por último, el autor señala que están dadas las condiciones para que México r