A Reorientação Externa do México e a Iniciativa Mérida
propondo um “real comprometimento” com o vizinho nos marcos de uma maior militarização e ingerência política na crise mexicana.
ABSTRACT: The article discusses the relationship between the reorientation of Mexican foreign affairs in the last three decades and the cooperation for fighting drug trafficking established after 2007 with the United States. First, we expose the framework of Mexican foreign policy during the period 1930-1980, shaped by the principles of autonomy and “revolutionary nationalism”, and also try to figure out the reasons for its dismissal after the debt crisis in the 1980’s. We verify that this shift has developed pari passu with an asymetric approach with the US through the Plan Brady, NAFTA and ASPAN. The Merida Initiative, then, could be understood as a path dependence of this structural convergence in the economic, social and political layers, what fosters a pression for the strenghtening of this cooperation despite the concrete results it had achieved yet. KEYWORDS: Mexico, Merida Initiative, Path Dependence, Security.
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