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The goal of this article is to conceptualize the US strategies towards the Northern Triangle countries during 2005–2015. Using Destradi’s framework of regional power strategies, this paper analyses strategic documents and secondary sources regarding how US defined goals of its regional cooperation and means for their achievement. It concludes claiming that the US strategy towards the region can be called hegemonic as it was openly subordinated to its needs. Nevertheless, there has been a shift from hard to intermediate hegemony as the US became more perceptive to the needs of its regional partners. KEYWOrDS: Northern Triangle, regional powers, regional strategies, empire, hegemony. rESUMEN El artículo sistematiza las estrategias de los EE. UU. hacia los países del Triángulo Norte, siguiendo la categorización de Destradi. Para ello, se ha analizado el contenido de los documentos estratégicos para identificar como los EE. UU. definen sus objetivos en cuanto a la cooperación regional y las medidas para conseguirlos. El texto concluye con la afirmación que la estrategia de los EE.UU. hacia la regi ón puede definirse como hege* researcher and Ph.d. student at the Institute of International relations and Political science at the university of Vilnius. Master’s degree in latin american studies from the university of Barcelona (2008-2010). among her academic interests are processes of cooperation and regional integration in south america (especially in central america), the strategies of regional powers and the foreign policy of the eu towards the countries of the Global south. Anuario Latinoamericano Ciencias Políticas y relaciones Internacionales vol. 7, 2019 pp. 175–192 DOI: 10.17951/al.2019.7.175-192

Empire, Leadership or Hegemony: US Strategies towards the Northern Triangle Countries in the 21st Century