Power, Governance, and Ideas in Chile's Free Trade Agreement Policy

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Why is Chile following such a proactive FTA policy and at the same time promoting the benefits of these type of agreements to other Latin American countries? There is a pre-dominance of economic explanations to analyze why countries pursue an active FTA policy. Yet within an FTA policy, understood as an essential component of a country's foreign policy, strategic and ideational goals are also important. Without downgrading economic explanations, I argue in this article that Chile's proactive FTA policy can also be understood using variables from 'traditional' international relations such as power, governance, and ideas. A framework based on such political-economic strategic issues and value-based ideas provides a better understanding of the country's motivations in implementing such a proactive FTA policy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: GIGA Working Papers ; No. 102

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: FTAs ; status ; soft balancing ; economic dependence ; governance ; ideas ; Chile

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wehner, Leslie
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
• (where): Hamburg
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/47730
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET