Resumen

CASCANTE SEGURA, Carlos Humberto. Foreign policy and national identity: The General Barrios’s Asylum case (1863-1865). Diálogos rev. electr. hist [online]. 2014, vol.15, n.2, pp.111-138. ISSN 1409-469X.

From the relationship between national identity building and foreign policy, this essay analyzes the case of diplomatic asylum granted by the government of Costa Rica to the former Salvadoran president Gerardo Barrios Espinoza. This event allows to undestandhow the international scenario and the actions made and executed in this ambit affect from different perspectives the domestic power relations within the mid-nineteenth century Costa Rica.

Palabras clave : Foreign Policy History; national identity building; Central America perception; diplomatic assylum.

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