ABSTRACT
The Cold War is the most global geopolitical, cultural, and ideological trance in history. During the Cold War, Latin America’s role, as an area of influence of the United States, could be compared, not without risk, with Eastern Europe, however, only in geographical and historical proximity to one of the hegemons. In Latin America, the geopolitical paradigm will be the old Inter-American System, with unambiguous terms of self-determination and sovereignty of each member country through soft balancing mechanisms mediated by multilateral diplomacy.
Once the system consolidated in the American States’ Organization in 1948, the signatory countries were free to choose up to what level they would commit to alliances with the hegemonic nation of the system, the United States. This article deals with the regionalization of foreign policy and the inter-American relations’ changes in the course of the Cold War to some extent. The region enters into a logic of “superior strategy” to orient its resources toward the achievement of political objectives within the conflict.
