Shifting the balance
Subtitle: Obama and the Americas
By: Abraham F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone, Laurence Whitehead, editors
Series: A Brookings Latin America Initiative Book
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780815705628
Subjects: Foreign relations
Description: "Examines the successful and unsuccessful approaches to rapprochement between the United States and various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean after the first year of the Obama administration against a background of initial optimism giving way to both U.S. and Latin American domestic political realities"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Mauricio Cardenas; title: 1. The Obama Administration and the Americas / Abraham F. Lowenthal; title: 2. Mexico and the United States : the search for a strategic vision / Carlos Heredia and Andrés Rozental; title: 3. Obama and Brazil / João Augusto de Castro Neves and Matias Spektor; title: 4. The United States and Colombia : recalibrating the relationship / Michael Shifter; title: 5. The Chávez challenge for Obama : an inconvenient marriage or frosty separation / Jennifer McCoy; title: 6. U.S.-Bolivian relations : behind the impasse / George Gray Molina; title: 7. Obama's Cuba policy : the end of the "new beginning" / Daniel P. Erikson; title: 8. The Honduran crisis and the Obama Administration / Kevin Casas-Zamora; title: 9. Haiti : life beyond survival / Juan Gabriel Valdés; title: 10. The democracy agenda for the Americas : the case for multilateral action / Theodore J. Piccone; title: 11. Obama and the Americas : old hopes, new risks / Laurence Whitehead.