Beyond the Pale: The Bureaucratic Politics of United States Policy in Mexico.

World Affairs | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

In the last two decades, Mexico has emerged as one of the most important countries in the world from the point of view of U.S. foreign policy. For the first sixty years after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, the United States took Mexican stability for granted, and we seldom worried overly about the large, populous, Third World neighbor on our southwestern border. Mexico was a top-down, authoritarian, patronage-based, single-party regime that incorporated major social groups into the political system; this, coupled with an economy that expanded impressively for several ...

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