The US Transpacific and Transatlantic relations: two projects, one strategy

• Main Author: Daniela Casandra Castorena Sánchez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 2015-09-01
• Series: Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
• Subjects: market rationale; US foreign policy; Atlantic space
• Online Access: http://www.cidob.org/en/content/download/61702/1865089/version/4/file/141-164_DANIELA%20CASANDRA%20CASTORENA%20SANCHEZ.pdf

To understand the direction in which US foreign policy is moving today, it is necessary to remember that it has always had an economic, pragmatic rationale with global dimensions and it is therefore inaccurate to present its behaviour as the product of globalisation processes or even a project for the new millennium. President Obama’s Administration began a strategy of replacement by announcing the abandonment of the global crusade against terrorism as the guiding principle of its foreign policy in favour of a tightening of relations in the Pacific basin. Nevertheless, six years of government provide evidence that the direction that the US market rationale will take in coming decades will be unsustainable in concentrating only on this region, as the inclusion of the Atlantic space is vital to establishing a strategy of global reach and, in this way, guaranteeing a second American century.