Alexis de Tocqueville, the profound student of American political regimes and democracy in the 19th century, saw considerable obstacles to the successful conduct of diplomacy by a democratic system. North American democracy, however, has become the world's greatest power. How has this result been achieved? Should we revise the Tocqueville hypothesis, or has the conduct of foreign policy been characterized by peculiarities that distinguish it from other aspects that, for analytical purposes, can be identified in the political process? Although the complexity of the exposition task is enormous, this study tries to clarify these questions, referring in most of the observations to the internal dimensions of foreign policy to give an idea of how the latter are elaborated.
Keywords:
United States, Foreign Policy, North American System, Diplomacy, Democracy
Author Biography
Manfred Wilhelmy von Wolff, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
PhD por la Universidad de Princeton y actual investigador de la Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
Wilhelmy von Wolff, M. (1978). La política exterior de Estados Unidos : dinámica interna y nuevos problemas. Estudios Internacionales, 11(42), p. 111–134. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1978.16474
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