Obama will deal from strength at Americas summit
Cynthia Arnson, Director of the Latin American Program, is quoted in this article regarding the diplomatic position of President Obama in the upcoming Summit of the Americas.
President Barack Obama will find himself in perhaps the strongest diplomatic position in years for a U.S. leader when he travels to Jamaica and Panama this week, the result of broad, more intense American engagement in a region that’s long seen itself as neglected.
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The United States is a much less relevant actor in the hemisphere than probably at any time in history,” said Cynthia J. Arnson, director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
“The story from 2000 through 2015 is of Latin American countries vastly diversifying” their international relationships, she said.
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Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
