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Inter-American relations after 9/11: overcoming neglect

The US Foreign Policy turn to the Middle East during the 2000s and the coming to power of leftleaning governments in Latin America was widely interpreted as a US neglect of the region and the beginning of a post-hegemonic era in the Western Hemisphere. Hakim (2006) argued that the US was losing interest to the region and Riggigorozzi and Tussie (2012) claimed the US decompression opened space to Latin American regionalism. These ideas became common sense, but they were rarely demonstrated (LONG, 2016). The recent reversion of that scenario, with the coming to power of right-wing governments and the US pressure on the Bolivarian Venezuelan government, makes clear that more research on the post 9/11 US policies to South America is needed. That is precisely what Rubrick Biegon proposes in US Power in Latin America, in which he aims to contest the neglect narrative. The author argues that during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations the US has sought to protect and strengthen its hegemony, reacting to the counter-hegemony practiced by the left-leaning governments in Latin America, which he names the New Latin-American Left (NLL).