Consilium diversificarela política exterior colombiana entre 1991 y 2014

Abstract

The study of Colombian foreign policy is constituted as one of the tools required for its strengthening, if it can be explained as a historical process whose guidelines and developments respond to certain elements and conditions, both internally and externally. The consilium diversificare or “diversification plan” analyzed in this academic work, put into practice since 2010, with the government of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón -beyond the rhetorical or discursive- arises, in principle, as an essential condition to start with the construction of a public foreign policy of State for the Republic of Colombia.In addition, Colombia's Political Constitution of 1991 is considered a political and economic milestone for the Colombian State, combined with a series of characteristics of the international system proper to the end of the Cold War, which consolidate it as an interesting point of reference. A study of the last five presidential periods, including that of the first Santos administration (2010-2014), which establish whether diversification can be classified as a condition for considering the foreign policy of Colombia as a State’s policy or a government’s policy and if, in addition, there have been other elements that affect its different stages of formulation, implementation and evaluation...