The Obama Administration and the Americas: A Promising Start

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements This essay has been adapted from “Renewing Inter-American Cooperation,” in Abraham F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2009), pp. 3—21. Used with permission. Notes 1. Organization of American States, “Inter-American Democratic Charter,” September 11, 2001, http://www.oas.org/charter/docs/resolution1_en_p4.htm. Additional informationNotes on contributorsAbraham F. LowenthalAbraham F. Lowenthal is professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, president emeritus of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the founding director of the Inter-American Dialogue