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A few months ago, those interested in international relations in Latin America witnessed the almost simultaneous appearance of two collections of essays on Latin American foreign policies: Jennie K. Lincoln and Elizabeth G. The Dynamics of Latin American Foreign Policies; and Heraldo Muñoz and Joseph S. Tulchin (editors), Latin American Nations in World Politics. This work is an essay review of both volumes. It is not intended to assess the quality of each of the trials; but rather to use both compilations as a starting point to reflect on the usefulness of various theoretical approaches and concepts, common to the study of general international relations and foreign policy, when it comes to applying them to Latin America. ; Hace unos meses los interesados en las relaciones internacionales de América Latina presenciamos la aparición casi simultánea de dos recopilaciones de ensayos sobre políticas externas latinoamericanas: Jennie K. Lincoln y Elizabeth G. The Dynamics of Latin American Foreign Policies; y Heraldo Muñoz y Joseph S. Tulchin (editores), Latin American Nations in World Politics. El presente trabajo es una reseña ensayística de ambos volúmenes. No pretende evaluar la calidad de cada uno de los ensayos; sino utilizar ambas recopilaciones como punto de partida para reflexionar acerca de la utilidad de diversos enfoques y conceptos teóricos, comunes al estudio de las relaciones internacionales generales y de la política externa, cuando se trata de aplicarlos a América Latina.

In the past decade or so the international relations of Latin America—for many years the subject of legalistic, institutional, polemical, or purely descriptive analyses—has been investigated on a much more sophisticated basis. Dependencia has emerged as a major organizing concept in much of the literature, and "bureaucratic politics" has provided a focus for some of the work emanating from North American scholars on U.S. Latin American policies. There are a number of other frameworks as well. Welcome as the wealth of new studies is, they nevertheless present us for the first time with a problem of assessing the utility of various theoretical approaches or at least with the challenge of relating them to one another in a meaningful fashion.

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