Principled Pragmatism in Mexico's Foreign Policy

lt;p> Rafael Velazquez Flores is Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics and International Relations, University of Baja California, Mexico. He has taught International Relations in several Mexican universities at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has been a visiting professor at the Pablo Olavide University in Seville, Spain; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany; and the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies, The Netherlands. His research interests focus on Mexican foreign policy, U.S.-Mexican relations, and diplomacy. He is past president of the Mexican Association of International Studies. He is president of the Center for Mexican Foreign Policy Studies, a think tank based in Mexico City dedicated to analyzing Mexico's foreign policy. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2 "Principled Pragmatism": An Approach to Study Foreign Policy.- Chapter 3. Mexico´s Foreign Policy in the XIX Century: The Origins of Principled Pragmatism 1821-1853.- Chapter 4. The "Reform" Period and the Porfirio Diaz Administration 1853-1910: The beginning of the Mexican Principled Pragmatism.- Chapter 5. The Revolutionary Phase and the Nationalistic Foreign Policy 1910-1934.- Chapter 6. Pragmatism and Nationalism in Mexico's Foreign Policy during the Cardenas administration and the Second World War 1934-1946.- Chapter 7. Principled Pragmatism in Mexico´s Foreign Policy during the First Years of the Cold War (1946-1970).- Chapter 8. Activist Foreign Policy, Oil Impetus and Economic Crisis (1970-1988).- Chapter 9. Mexico's Foreign Policy after the end of the Cold War: A New Neoliberal Economic Pragmatism 1988-2000.- Chapter 10. Changes in the Political System and a New Principled-Pragmatic Foreign Policy 2000-2018.- Chapter 11. Principled Pragmatism under a Leftist Administration: The Foreign Policy of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.- Chapter 12. Conclusions.