Border dimension of Chilean foreign policies: Immobility and urgency of new dynamics

• Main Authors: Cristian Ovando Santana, Gonzalo Álvarez Fuentes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 2011-07-01
• Series: Estudios Fronterizos
• Subjects: constructivismo; política exterior; fronteras; Chile; Bolivia.
• Online Access: http://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/110

The following article draws the priorities of border public policy that define the Chilean foreign policy. Through a theoretical framework from the rational–reflective approach of International Relations, we argue that despite of the increasing openness, internationalization of the country, and the emergence of new actors and subnational initiatives; the views and options between the actors of this new area and the definitions of foreign policy not always match. We propose the need to establish mechanisms that settle the positions among regional social–political actors, intermediate agencies and the central level.