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Ecuadoran Foreign Policy Since 1979: Ideological Cycles or a Trend towards Neoliberalism?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jeanne A.K. Hey
Jeanne A.K. Hey*
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Miami University (Oxford, OH)
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The end of the Cold War raises many questions about the role of Third World states in the emerging “New World Order.” During the “old” world order, however, Latin America played a crucial role in the US sphere of influence. This alone merits study of its recent foreign policy behavior, not only because the region is home to many of the newly industrializing states, but also because it will undoubtedly be an important player in regional and global politics into the 21st century (Brysk, 1992; Lowenthal, 1993). How will Latin Americans respond to a Hemisphere dominated by the United States? Will they resist or endorse the trend towards open markets and economies? This article investigates this question with regard to Ecuador, exploring whether Ecuador's foreign policymakers are in the process of shifting towards embrace of a US-dominated Hemisphere governed by free-market economic ideals or, rather, are developing policies in accordance with their own ideological predilections.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , Winter 1995 , pp. 57 - 88
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Copyright © University of Miami 1995

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Footnotes

The author thanks Thomas Klak, Neil Richardson, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.

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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1994.

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