In Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy, Omar Loera examines why Mexico has an unusual foreign policy for a middle power country and demonstrates how conflicting expectations from domestic and external actors have led to foreign policy contradictions.
Omar A. Loera-González is a researcher at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. He was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Edinburgh in 2021. He is the recipient of the 2019–21 Carlos Fuentes award for the most outstanding UK-based Mexican researcher in Social Sciences. His research interests include Mexican foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, and role theory. Loera-González has also published works on migration and intercultural issues.