Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy: Making Sense of Mexico's Place in World Politics

Role Theory and Mexico’s Foreign Policy examines why Mexico has an unusual foreign policy for a middle-power country.

Using a series of case studies to show how role conflict has operated in Mexico’s foreign policy, Omar Loera-González studies three specific settings where Mexico could have displayed middle-power behaviour. First, he analyses Mexico’s controversial membership and performance in the Iraq crisis within the Security Council of the United Nations from 2002 to 2003. The second ca...