Located on the Pacific coast, El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America and the most populous. The foreign policy of the United States of America on El Salvador is best explained by President Obama's approach to Latin America, where the United States focuses on economic growth and equality, energy and climate control, and regional and citizen security (Foreign Policy, 2012). This is best explained using the international level of analysis and neoliberalism, where global structure and economic interdependence provide the foundation of American foreign policy. To ensure that you can see transparency in the US methodology, I will provide the history of El Salvador, the creation of the US interest in El Salvador, and finally the current agreements and the results it offers to both nations. Before we get into the important aspects of the article I will define some of the essential terms to ensure that the order in which I explain this essay makes sense, as do the political terms I will provide. First, supporters of “neoliberalism” support the worldwide development of democracy, open markets and free trade (Papp, 2005). Second, the level of analysis I will use is the “international level” which I will refer to as the nation [as a whole], international governmental organizations such as the United Nations, non-governmental organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, and the global community [allies or not] (Papp, 2005). I will then provide my counterargument in which I will use classical realism and the national level of analysis to support my refutation. Classical realism refers to the school of thought that holds that “a nation's external relations should rest on a foundation... middle of paper.../topic/181798/El-SalvadorForeign Policy. (2012). Retrieved April 21, 2012, from the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/foreign-policyUnderstanding the WTO: Membership & Observers. (2012). Retrieved April 2012 from World Trade Organizations: http://www.wto.org/Benavides, M. (2008). El Salvador in the era of globalization. CANADIAN WOMEN'S STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME.Philosophia. (n.d.). Retrieved April 2012, from Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de El Salvador: http://www.rree.gob.sv/index.php?/marco-institucional/filosofia.phpHobby, ET (2007). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning.Papp, D.S. (2005). American foreign policy. Pearson Education, Inc. Stanley, W. D. (2006). El Salvador: first the construction of the state. Third World Quarterly.Wolf, S. (2009). Subverting Democracy: Elite Domination e. Cambridge Press.