THE PINNACLE OF UNITED STATES-PERU RELATIONS: A SURVEY OF THE MOTIVATIONS FOR AND THE RATIFICATION PROCESS OF THE UNITED STATES-PERU TRADE PROMOTION AGREEMENT
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2008-05-27T17:45:10Z
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Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
On December 14, 2007, President George W. Bush signed the
United States Peru Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation
Act (H.R. 3688), now Public Law No: 110-138, thus ratifying
the United States Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (USPTPA).
The objective of this thesis is to survey the environment
surrounding the negotiation and ratification of USPTPA and
to comment generally on the motivational circumstances for
entering into the agreement on the part of both the United
States and Peru. The survey includes capturing information
on the history of the United States-Peru relationship
leading up to present-day, discussing the relevant policies
and processes that led up to the USPTPA, summarizing the
most relevant content of the USPTPA and how stakeholders
participated on behalf of their own interests, and looking
at what some of the motivations for undertaking the
negotiation and ratification process of the USPTPA might
have been. It would seem that, in United States-Peru
relations, the entangling of the philosophies of political
realism and liberal internationalism in making foreign
policy decisions has proved positive. The result, the
USPTPA, is a functional (and probably largely positive)
mechanism that will have practical and measurable
implications for both the United States and Peru, whether or not the political implications are ever fully realized
or measured.