Description
Latin America remains an underexplored area in historical international relations research. Until recently, the international relations of these states has been almost exclusively studied by historians. This is the surprising given that Latin American comprises the oldest subsystem of sovereign states outside Europe, whose members have remained largely the same since they achieved independence in the early nineteenth century. In this panel, contributions how recent studies Latin American international relations have changed our understanding of key research agendas in IR, such as state formation and violence, the emergence of a so-called liberal international order and its respective norms and institutions, among other things, in comparative historical perspective.
