Western Hemisphere
Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, eds.
The triumph of democracy was arguably the most important development of the twentieth century, in Latin America as elsewhere. But will Latin America now consolidate its representative democracies and build strong, independent institutions and vibrant, watchful civil societies?
Charlene Barshefsky and James T. Hill, eds.
Ernesto Zedillo and Thomas R. Pickering, eds.
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.
