Inter-American Cooperation at a Crossroads

JOSETTE ALTMAN BORBON is Regional Co-ordinator for International Co-operation in the General Secretariat of the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO) and Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Costa Rica LOUIS BAeLANGER is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Universite Laval, Canada RUT DIAMINT is a Professor at Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina and the University of Bologna, Italy DANIEL P. ERIKSON is Senior Associate for US Policy and Director of Caribbean Programs at the Inter-American Dialogue ANTONI ESTEVADEORDAL is Manager of the Integration and Trade Sector RICHARD FEINBERG is Professor of International Political Economy at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, USA NORMAN GIRVAN is Professorial Research Fellow at the UWI Graduate Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago JORGE HEINE holds the Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, is Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada THOMAS LEGLER is Professor of International Relations at the Iberoamerican University of Mexico City THOMAS ANDREW O'KEEFE is the President of Mercosur Consulting Group, Ltd, Washington, D.C., USA RICHARD OUELLET is Associate Professor of International Economic Law at Laval University, Canada NICOLA PHILLIPS is Professor of Political Economy and Founding Director of the Political Economy Institute at the University of Manchester, UK MARC SCHELHASE is Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London, UK, and Visiting Professor in the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium KATI SUOMINEN is Trade Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., USA JEAN-PHILIPPE THERIEN is Professor in the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Universite de Montreal, Canada DIANA TUSSIE heads the Department of International Relations at FLACSO, Argentina, and is Founding Director of the Latin American Trade Network (LATN)

Fifteen years after the first Summit of the Americas, the world and the Americas have changed enormously. Competing strategies for economic development and political representation have shattered the hemispheric consensus of the 1990s. This book analyzes these developments and points towards a future for inter-American co-operation.Fifteen years after the first Summit of the Americas, the world and the Americas have changed enormously. Competing strategies for economic development and political representation have shattered the hemispheric consensus of the 1990s. This book analyzes these developments and points towards a future for inter-American co-operation.