Peru's Relations with Pacific Asia

"Peru's Relations with Pacific Asia: Democracy and Foreign Policy under Alan García, Alberto Fujimori, and Alejandro Toledo" represents an attempt to deal with nearly twenty years of Peruvian foreign policy towards a region which, to national policy makers, at first seemed inaccessible due to the predicament of its geographical distance. In this study the author highlights the impact of the political system and of the economic situation in Peru on the foreign policymaking process towards Pacific Asia in order to detect the obstacles and chances of Peru's relationship with the region.

Stefanie Mann, born in 1968, was a research fellow at the University of Mainz (Germany) working for over three years on the relationship between Latin America and Pacific Asia. For this purpose she spent several months in Latin America, interviewing many well-known persons in the academic, economic and political arena.