Heine Co-Authors Article on Latin American Active Non-Alignment
Ambassador Jorge Heine, Research Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, co-authored an op-ed in Nueva Sociedad, a Latin American social science research magazine, exploring the relationship between Latin America, the United States, and China. Heine published the article with Carlos Fortin and Carlos Ominami.
The article, titled “El no alineamiento activo: una camino para América Latina” or “Active Non Alignment as The Way Forward for Latin America,” elaborates on the notion, first broached in an earlier article in Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica, that a foreign policy of active non-alignment is the best alternative for Latin America in the current circumstances of the deep crisis facing the region.
The article explains how the U.S. has increasingly tried to cut Latin America off from prospective trade with China and speculates that the new American leadership at the Inter-American Development Bank could also be a tool to limit the regions trade options. Heine, Fortin, and Ominami argue that Latin America must aims for a middle-road between Washington and Beijing, actively searching for trade opportunities in areas of potential growth such Africa and Central Asia.
An excerpt:
Far from “closing in” more and more in itself, as the anachronistic application of the Monroe Doctrine claims in the XXI century, Latin America must “open up” to this new “post-Western world”, in the words of Oliver Stuenkel. In this world, the parameters, rules and resources no longer come only from the North Atlantic countries, as happened in much of the 20th century, but also from the new emerging powers, led by the BRICS, but also by other countries. from Asia and Africa that open the gap and set the tone.
The full article can be read here.
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 on him here.