Issues of Foreign Policy and Democracy in Latin America

Running head: QUESTION AND ANSWER
Question and answer
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1QUESTION AND ANSWER
Introduction
The aim of the paper is to the issues of foreign policy and democracy by quoting the
author from the module. The paper has been divided into four parts while the first part of the
analysis discusses Donald Trump’s foreign policy in context of Latin America, while the rest of
the paper is an analysis of the issues of policy, colonization and democracy.
Question 1.
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is largely confined to the protection of security and
defense and also in fighting the terrorist abroad. However one of the crucial aspect of his foreign
policy is putting the interest of the American’s first hence this has led to the adoption of the
“America first” approach. On the issues of protection of defense, Trump has invested large
amount of defense spending. It is significant to note that the projection of foreign policy of
Trump has largely been confined to the promotion of economic interests. The Trump
administration undertook the nuclear deterrent towards countries like North Korea which poses
threat to the peaceful survival of the nation. For the protection of territory from external threat in
form of terrorist threats, he has adopted the “get tough” approach (Smith, 2000). Even when
Trump proclaims the message of peacekeeping and goodwill towards the nations of the world,
the issue of Latin America remains a bleak area. This new administration under the Presidency of
Trump has failed to undertake any serious effort towards Latin America. There are no wide
ranging ideas to promote and engage with the Latin Americans rather the interest has been
judged and decided on the basis of domestic concerns of U.S. For example, the US Mexico
border is one issue which has been damaging for the maintenance of the bilateral ties between
the two countries (Smith, 2000). Hence it could be argued that the relation between US and the

2QUESTION AND ANSWER
Latin American countries have not seen positive growth after Donald Trump’s policy decision
rather it has created diplomatic and bilateral ties between them.
Question 2.
The territorial expansion and imperial interest of US has been explained by Professor
Smith in the following way. It has been observed that he deals with the issue from the structural
point of view. It has been mentioned that from the time of Jefferson, U.S tried to exclude the
overarching influence of Europe and started focusing on the different aspects of the Monroe
Doctrine. These phases of imperial interests were mostly concentrated in promoting interest of
the Spanish American independence (Smith, 2000). However this phase is defined as the
hemisphere hegemony by the author. However the policy of expansion and imperialism has
changed in the late 19th century has moved from the acquisition of territory to the racial
discrimination and discrimination of including anyone other than the Anglo-Saxon (Smith,
2000). This imperial policy has been focused on creating a commercial empire. However what is
interesting to note is that the idea of US hegemony was possible due to the chain of events that
took place in the global arena. This attempt of expansion of imperialism was constantly
substantiated by the preaching of gospel of democracy. It was further supported by events like
Dollar diplomacy. It has also been argued by the author that U.S marched with the Latin
American countries for their freedom from subjugation (Smith, 2000). Such ideological changes
led to the lowering of European influence at the global platform with an enhanced chance for US
to re-establish their hegemony. The strategic policies of the U. S presidency have been able to
maintain the hegemonic position through the diplomatic bilateral and multilateral ties.