Editing Foreign relations of Colombia (section)

=== Domestic politics and foreign policy ===
International Relations scholars long emphasized international constraints, and particularly Colombia's relationship with the United States, as central to its foreign policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uniandes.edu.co/es/publicaciones/libro-nuevos-enfoques-para-el-estudio-de-las-relaciones-internacionales-de-colombia|title=Nuevos enfoques para el estudio de las relaciones internacionales de Colombia|last=Saavedra|first=Maria Victoria Gonzalez|date=2017-11-30|website=Universidad de los Andes - Colombia - Sitio oficial|language=es|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref> In terms of foreign policy process, presidents have broad constitutional authorities, in consultation with their foreign ministers. However, since the 2000s, the influence of other domestic actors in Colombian foreign policy-making has increased. Long, Bitar, and Jiménez-Peña examine the role of the Colombian Constitutional Court, congressional politics, social movements, and electoral challengers. They find that Colombian institutions permit increasing challenges to presidential authority, and that in important cases Colombian presidents have been forced to drop their preferred foreign policies.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Long|first1=Tom|last2=Bitar|first2=Sebastián|last3=Jiménez-Peña|first3=Gabriel|title=Domestic Contestation and Presidential Prerogative in Colombian Foreign Policy|journal=Bulletin of Latin American Research|doi=10.1111/blar.12987|issn=1470-9856|year=2019|volume=39|issue=4|pages=466–482|doi-access=free|url=http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/116627/1/WRAP-domestic-contestation-presidential-prerogative-Colombian-foreign-policy-Long-2019.pdf}}</ref>