The international insertion of Latin America in the 1970s was marked by important transformations. The more general phenomena allowed some countries in the area to assume a new space for external action. This paper examines the impact that this scenario has caused on the relations of the United States with a category of countries that at this stage came to deserve the denomination of "medium powers", "semi-industrialized countries", "new industrialized countries" or even "emerging countries", focusing attention on the two countries most markedly classified in this category: Mexico and Brazil, since we consider that the set of transformations that allowed a new international projection of both nations had in common an economic restructuring and a political redefinition of its ties with the United States.
Keywords:
United States, Middle Powers, Brazil, Mexico, Bilateral Relations
Author Biography
Mónica Hirst, FLACSO Argentina
Investigadora del Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro y del Área de Relaciones Internacionales de FLACSO, Buenos Aires.
Hirst, M. (1985). Las relaciones de Estados Unidos con las potencias medianas en América Latina : los casos de México y Brasil. Estudios Internacionales, 18(70), p. 241–269. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1985.15824
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