The European Community and Latin America: A Case Study in Global Role Expansion

The European Community and Latin America profiles the power and goals of the European Community and examines the Community’s past relations with Latin America and the techniques for their management. Factors significant for this relationship’s future are analyzed: the global setting; the two regions’ internal conditions; the potential of each to meet the other’s needs; and the procedures for handling interregional affairs. Attention is given to the political/security interests of the two regions and the attractiveness, to each, of closer relations with other parts of the world.