Book Review: America through Foreign Eyes
In his latest, Jorge Castañeda offers clues to what drives the U.S.-Latin America relationship.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on closing the gender gap How the US views itself inevitably informs its foreign policy In America through Foreign Eyes, academic and former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda turns a sympathetic outsider’s eye on Americans to offer an intriguingly positive interpretation of where the country is headed (I will use the term Americans here as he does, while recognizing the debate that surrounds it) Castañeda’s book revolves around the idea of exceptionalism, that distinctly American sense of being different and superior In...
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