Regional Alliances - Free Trade Area of Americas Agreement.

摘要

This paper proposes that Washington formulate a foreign policy towards Latin America that is based on economic development and growth. The Free Trade Area of Americas Agreement is the means to achieve this foreign policy goal and will create an economic community of all democratic nations in the Western Hemisphere. The crux of Washington's efforts to bring the FTAA to fruition should be to gain Brazilian cooperation on the agreement as well as on other regional issues. A tenet of this paper is that strong free market economies will strengthen the institutions of democracy in the Western Hemisphere and this support a core national interest of the United States of maintaining a healthy and prosperous economy. A secondary objective of this paper is to highlight the public service accomplishments of Elihu Root, founder of the Army War College. His foreign policy accomplishments as Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt forged a strong friendship with Brazil that well-served U.S. interests for the first seventy years of the 20th Century, .