Republican internationalism : the nineteenth-century roots of Latin American contributions to international order

• Published in: Cambridge Review of International Affairs
• Main Authors: Long, Tom (Thomas Stephen), Schulz, Carsten-Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Routledge 2022
• Subjects: F1201 Latin America (General); JL Political institutions (America except United States); JZ International relations; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/153038/; http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/153038/13/WRAP-Republican-internationalism-Long-2021.pdf; http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/153038/7/WRAP-Republican-internationalism-nineteenth-century-Latin-America-order-2021.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2021.1944983

Though Latin America plays a minimal role in debates on ‘liberal international order’, scholars recognize the region’s contributions to international law, norms, and institutions. We argue that Latin America’s engagement with and contributions to order spring from a longstanding tradition of ‘republican internationalism’. While the domestic practices of republicanism have drawn attention from historians, republicanism’s implications for nineteenth century international engagement remain largely unexplored. We suggest that republican values such the separation of power, association and the rule of law had important diplomatic corollaries in Latin American international relations, including sovereign equality, confederation and regional cooperation, and international law and arbitration. This article demonstrates how including actors beyond the North Atlantic can better inform accounts on the origins of international order. It also advances IR debates on the distinctive role of republican ideas and practices for understanding the sources liberal international order, in Latin America and beyond.