Richard Feinberg

Strauss brings international law to life with this technical yet accessible exploration of the U.S. naval station in southern Cuba.

In this timely volume, Brainard and Martinez-Diaz concede that the Brazilian state's past fostering of national enterprises laid the foundation for the success of the country's global firms today -- in petrochemicals, aerospace, biofuels, and export-oriented agriculture.

The 49 contributions to this outstanding anthology trace continuity and change during Cuba's "special period" (1986-2006) in the country's foreign policy, domestic economics and politics, social values, culture, and media.

Hart, a senior Canadian diplomat and scholar, argues passionately that his fellow citizens should get over their dangerous illusions of difference and self-importance and instead focus on solidifying their security and economic relations with the United States.

After last month's fractious Trinidad Summit, what can the Obama administration do to restore the promise of regional cooperation?

In a study based on self-critical evaluations by major donors, Buss points many fingers -- at Haitian elites, U.S. domestic politics, the donor community, NGOs, and private contractors for Haiti's fragile state.

Greene's contribution with this book is to describe the complex labor-management system that organized, segregated, disciplined, and motivated the thousands of American whites and West Indian blacks recruited for the massive undertaking of the "big ditch."

These three compilations of recommendations for the incoming Obama administration suggest broad, although not unanimous, agreement among policy elites in the United States and Latin America on specific steps to repair inter-American relations and to help Latin America better manage and safeguard its democracies.