RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kevin Casas-Zamora, April 24, 2009, The Brookings Institution
All things considered, the Summit was a success for the President and for the U.S. writes Kevin Casas-Zamora. He concludes that despite the dearth of immediate results, the mutation in tone under Obama will lead in due course to concrete changes in the U.S. relationship with the region. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ted Piccone, April 14, 2009, The Huffington Post
As the Summit of the Americas draws near, Ted Piccone analyzes Obama's debut before the hemisphere’s main gathering of democratically elected leaders and discusses what should come from the meeting. Piccone believes Obama should lead by example by implementing human rights reforms at home and by reminding colleagues they share a responsibility to follow universal democratic standards. Read More
PAST EVENT
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
On April 1, Brookings hosted a panel discussion on the upcoming Summit of the Americas and the recently released book, The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), edited by Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Abraham F. Lowenthal, Brookings Senior Fellow and Deputy Director of Foreign Policy Theodore J. Piccone and University of Oxford Fellow Laurence Whitehead. Read More
BOOK
Abraham F. Lowenthal, Ted Piccone, Laurence Whitehead and Foreword by Strobe Talbott, April 01, 2009
The Obama administration inherits a daunting set of domestic and international policy challenges. The Obama Administration and the Americas, however, argues that the new administration should focus early and strategically on Latin America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kevin Casas-Zamora, February 18, 2009, The Brookings Institution
Having just celebrated his first decade in power to the tune of a national holiday, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is here to stay, writes Kevin Casas-Zamora. Though Chavez remains a formidable tactician and a better-than-average strategist, Casas-Zamora notes there are obstacles ahead like oil prices that have plummeted, crime, and an anti-Chavez opposition that is less marginalized than in the past. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kevin Casas-Zamora, February 14, 2009, Project Syndicate
Kevin Casas-Zamora examines Venezuela after 10 years of Hugo Chávez. Casas-Zamora argues that Venezuela remains under-developed even by Latin America standards and that recent history can show how perils may beset unjust democracies. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Daniel L. Byman, May 29, 2008, Saban Center Analysis Paper
The current United States approach to state sponsorship of terrorism is flawed, writes Daniel Byman. He suggests that instead of simply managing a list of state sponsors, Washington needs to recognize the complexity of sponsorship, monitor states using a broad definition of what constitutes state sponsorship, and use diplomatic pressure as well as political and economic penalties when needed. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Diana Villiers Negroponte, November 30, 2007, The Brookings Institution
Diana Negroponte discusses the upcoming referendum to accept or reject a new Constitution in Venezuela and the implications it may have for the country. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Diana Villiers Negroponte and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, November 27, 2007, The Brookings Institution
In October and November of 2007, Brookings Scholars Michael O'Hanlon, Diana Negroponte and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz had an e-mail exchange with prominent Latin American scholars with a variety of perspectives to discuss the issues facing Latin America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David B. Sandalow, November 24, 2007, CNN's This Week at War
David Sandalow joins CNN's Tom Foreman and Ali Velshi to discuss rising gas prices in light of Venezuela and Iran's leaders threatening to use oil as a weapon should the U.S. take military action against their countries. He also offers possible solutions to ending America's dependence on oil. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael E. O'Hanlon, April 10, 2006, The O'Reilly Factor (FOX)
O'REILLY: "Impact" segment tonight, no surprise, French President Jacques Chirac has surrendered to the howling mob. For weeks, thousands of young French citizens, as you may know, have been demonstrating against a proposed new law that would allow French companies to fire them within the first two years on the job. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Carol Graham, March 01, 2006, The Brookings Institution
With Hugo Chavez as an increasingly vocal critic of the United States, the electoral victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia, continued political instability in Ecuador; and the recent emergence of Ollanta Humala, an anti-market, extreme nationalist dark-horse political candidate in the electoral race in Peru, there is much discussion of Latin America's looming lurch to the radical left, with a host of negative implications for democracy, trade, and foreign investment in the region. Read More