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Shifting the balance : Obama and the Americas / Abraham F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone, [and] Laurence Whitehead, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brookings Latin America initiative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.
- United States.
- Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.
- Latin America.
- United States--Foreign relations--2009-.
- Obama, Barack.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Other Title:
- Obama and the Americas
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword; The Obama Administration and the Americas; Mexico and the United States: The Search for a Strategic Vision; Obama and Brazil; The United States and Colombia: Recalibrating the Relationship; The Chavez Challenge for Obama: An Inconvenient Marriage or Frosty Separation; U.S.-Bolivian Relations: Behind the Impasse; Obama's Cuba Policy: The End of the ""New Beginning""; The Honduran Crisis and the Obama Administration; Haiti: Life beyond Survival; The Democracy Agenda in the Americas: The Case for Multilateral Action
- Obama and the Americas: Old Hopes, New RisksContributors; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612916212
- 9781282916210
- 1282916211
- 9780815705635
- 0815705638
- OCLC:
- 694729145
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