Theories of Dependent Foreign Policy and the Case of Ecuador in the 1980sHow do economic weakness and dependence influence foreign policy decisions and behavior in third world countries? Theories in Dependent Foreign Policy examines six foreign policy theories: compliance, consensus, counterdependence, realism, leader preferences and domestic politics, and each is applied to a series of case studies of Ecuadors foreign policy during the 1980s under two regimes: Osvaldo Hurtado (1981 1984) and his successor Len Febres