The New Global Agenda and the Formation of Diplomats in Latin America

The collapse of the bipolar system accelerated the rise of a new international economy in which the developed countries have capital, technology, control of communications, food surpluses, etcetera, while the developing countries see the value of their labor and of the raw materials they export diminished. Markets acquire the import of State, and although they do not act with the power of a major State, they have taken traditional political power hostage and have submitted it to their own law. The new world order is characterized by the presence of new topics in the global agenda —unquestionably democracy, human rights, the environment, corruption, etcetera—, whose treatment challenges classical concepts such as sovereignty and non-intervention. In this sense, the new agenda requires the foreign affairs ministers and the foreign service of each country to offer its diplomats the necessary training to fully perform their functions within a new, complex reality.