Since the election of Ronald Reagan, ultra-conservative sectors have acquired great weight in the competition of power groups to obtain governmental decisions that characterize the United States. These sectors go much further; prohibit the politics of power giving it a tinge of hegemonic isolationism and to reach their goals they have undertaken a persistent and well-organized work of demolition of the United Nations system. Examples of this are the withdrawal of the Margaret Thatcher government from UNESCO and Reagan's intention to do the same with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In this paper, the reasons adduced by governments or their advisers in these two cases are analyzed.
Keywords:
United States, International Anti-Cooperation, Power Politics, Hegemony, Conservatism
Author Biography
Hernán Santa Cruz Barceló
De larga e influyente trayectoria en las Naciones Unidas, fue director regional de la FAO para América Latina y embajada de Chile ante dicha organización mundial. Ha publicado recientemente "Cooperar o perecer: el dilema de la organización mundial"
Santa Cruz Barceló, H. (1985). La anticooperación internacional y el retorno de las políticas de poder. Estudios Internacionales, 18(69), p. 81–86. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1985.15836
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