Twenty years of Paraguayan foreign policy.

A look from 2000 to 2020

Abstract

Going over the last twenty years of Paraguay’s foreign policy involves analyzing six governments with their own peculiarities and very diverse historical contexts. The period between the years 2000 and 2020 begins with the first year of the mandate fulfilled by the former president of the Senate, Luis Ángel González Macchi, who became president after a major political crisis, and ends in the current presidency of Mario Abdo Benítez, having passed his first two years of mandate of the corresponding five years. The study of these two decades will aim to analyze the changes and continuities present in Paraguay's foreign policy throughout this period, focusing on the modification or permanence of a foreign policy "style". Special attention will be paid to the active or reactive nature that Paraguayan politics presents in each government, according to the capacity to promote an effective process of planning, formulation and implementation of a foreign policy project, and at the same time, evaluating the existence of either a more dependent or a more autonomous position in the face of conditioning factors coming from both the external order and the domestic level.