Heine’s “Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World Order” Reviewed by The Wire
The Wire, one of India’s foremost news and world event publication sites, published a review of Latin American Policies in the New World Order, the most recent book by Jorge Heine, Research Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
In the review, former Ambassador Deepak Bhojwani lauded the book’s explanation of active non-alignment and its connections to modern foreign policy decisions — decisions like refraining from sending aid to Ukraine, resisting the West’s demands for united Russian sanctions, and engaging with China. He also touched on a central theme of the book: the fact that active non-alignment in Latin America goes against American interests. After centuries of the United States dominating Latin America, the increasing prevalence of active non-alignment persuades states to make decisions based on strategy, rather than ideology. Amb. Bhojwani agrees with this analysis, arguing that the “decline of the liberal international order coincides with the rise of China…[and]…calls, to some extent at least, for a more agnostic ideological stance in foreign policy.”
An excerpt:
“The editors summarise the doctrine aptly in their closing chapter, describing ANA as a foreign policy doctrine that adapts Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity ‘to the realities of …a century in which the old Third World has been replaced by a New South… An uncompromising commitment to the principle of non-alignment is decisive for this.’ This is a seminal work which articulates the basis of much of the region’s modern foreign policy. It is as timely as it is relevant.”
Read the full review on The Wire‘s website.
Ambassador Jorge Heine is a Research Professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He has served as ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007), and to South Africa (1994-1999), and as a Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government. Read more about Ambassador Heine on his Pardee School faculty profile.