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| volume = 11 | issue = 1 | pages = 291–298 | last = Jones | first = Matthew | title = America's backyard | journal = Diplomacy & Statecraft | year = 2017}}</ref> Conversely, "America's Backyard" is referred to the area within which actions by enemy or competing powers might be feared or seen as provocative.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLH39192920080917 |title= The Russian bear in America's backyard: Bernd Debusmann |accessdate=2010-02-28 |author=Bernd Debusmann |date=2008-09-17 |publisher=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> This has much in common with the Russian [[near abroad]], used primarily in reference to the former Soviet Bloc countries; "near Abroad" signified that "Russia [claimed] rights in the region that transcend traditional diplomatic conventions".<ref name=nyt>{{cite web |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EED81E39F931A15756C0A962958260 |title= ON LANGUAGE; The Near Abroad |accessdate=2008-04-18 |author=[[William Safire]] |date=1994-05-22 |publisher=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
 
There are differences between the terms, in the that "near abroad" for Russia referred to countries which had previously been in political union with [[Russia]] until the fall of the [[Soviet Union]] (and after independence were initially part of the closely tied [[Commonwealth of Independent States]]), whereas the Central and South American countries considered part of America's backyard have never been politically tied to the United States (with the exception of [[Panama]]). In addition, "America's backyard" has been used in a domestic context to refer to [[national parks]] and other open land, whereas "near abroad" refers solely to foreign (though proximate) areas and cannot be used in a [[public land]] context.
 
== Central and South America ==
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