Toward improving cooperation in the Americas

Abstract

The next US Administration will face many challenges: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan's possible implosion, conflict with Iran, high energy and food prices, climate change and its effects, the economic growth of China and India and its implications, and the festering IsraelPalestine quandary -not to mention a deepening credit crisis and wider economic recession, turmoil over immigration, growing health care costs, pending decisions on tax and energy policies, decaying infrastructure and the evident need to focus on education, criminal justice reform, competitiveness and other domestic challenges. No one should expect the new U.S. Administration or the next Congress to give priority to relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. None of