On October 1, Mexico’s Andrés Manuel President López Obrador will finish a momentous six-year term. Though transformative in domestic politics, the president's international policy is often maligned as ignorant and isolationist. In a new article for Foreign Policy, PAIS's Tom Long and Carsten-Andreas Schulz (Cambridge) argue that AMLO's international legacy is best understood as an attempt to revive the republican internationalism of his hero Benito Juárez. In doing so, they draw on their recent article in the American Political Science Review, “A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico.”

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