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Mexican Foreign Policy

Uploaded by Lone Wolf on Mar 13, 2009

[color=black:fb92fd082c][/color:fb92fd082c]The Foreign Policy of Mexico is not that open to many countries. This is because of their democratic beliefs based on the doctrines Carranza ad Estrada. However, as time passed Mexico is starting to veer away from this path. Trade paves way for another path which will hopefully enable Mexico to have a strong and effective foreign policy and thus have strong ties with other countries.

According to the Democracy Coalition Project, while the foreign policy of Mexico has increasingly integrated democratic standards that became institutionalized throughout Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s, the belief of Mexico in the basic principles of non-interventionism has prevented it from taking a role in leading the defense of democracy in the Latin American region. Furthermore, it has abstained from participating in, and did not receive international electoral observation missions until 1994. In general, Mexico tend to be cautious of any practices suggested in the “international fora” that have seemed to impose foreign values and practices on other countries.

According to Democracy Coalition Project, “the result of repeated foreign interventions in the nineteenth century and its struggle to establish revolutionary governments, Mexico’s foreign policy came to be based largely on the Carranza and Estrada doctrines”. These two doctrines, the Carranza and Estrada, are doctrines that advocated the principles or beliefs of non-intervention, non-aggression and the self-determination of nations, regardless of the actions by which any government came into power. As said by the Democracy Coalition Project, over time these doctrines were used and manipulated by authoritarian regimes which led to their using of these two doctrines as a shield against international inquiry of internal undemocratic practices. These doctrines allowed Mexico to not to “care” about their neighboring countries thus, weakening their foreign relations with other countries.

Although Mexico is still a supporter of non-interventionism, beginning with the Salinas Administration which was from 1988-1994, it has begun to move away from this strict obedience to these principles- the Carranza and Estrada doctrines. Mexico has relied on a variety of tools to promote democracy abroad, including participation in electoral observation missions, provision of technical electoral assistance, and adoption of most regional instruments to defend democracy.

According to the website Mexidata.info, during the Salinas administration integration into the global economy rather than democratic political reform, continued to dominate domestic and foreign policy. International agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), focused on economic development and did...

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Uploaded by:   Lone Wolf

Date:   03/13/2009

Category:   Contemporary

Length:   7 pages (1,555 words)

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