Autonomy and Foreign Policy Diversification in Latin America

Abstract

This article delves into the analysis that the theoretical literature has given to the goal of foreign policy diversification. In order to do so, three key questions are asked: 1. what is foreign policy diversification?; 2. what is it used for?; and 3. what factors produce it? The answers offered by authors who address this issue are diverse and ambiguous. However, the main purpose of the article is to highlight the often-assumed link between diversification and autonomy, and elaborate on how this relationship works