Colombia in the International Arena in the Interwar Period: motives and challenges

Abstract

The inter-war period was a time when exchanges between Colombia and the rest of the world developed remarkably despite the subordination of the nation’s diplomacy to the foreign policy of the United States, its main economic partner. As a result, for the Colombian government, the struggle against imperialism constituted one of the pillars of its foreign policy, calling for the strengthening of regional cooperation and the mobilization of international expertise for the material and human development of Latin American states. Influenced by the optimism born in Versailles and by Wilsonian ideals, the various succeeding administrations during this period sought to characterize regional realities and strengthen state institutions in favor of the materialization of a project of humanist democracy.