The Obama administration inherits a daunting set of domestic and international policy challenges. It would be tempting to put Latin America and the Caribbean on the back burner, for their nations pose no imminent security threat nor do they seem at first blush critical to the most pressing problems of U.S. foreign policy. "The Obama Administration and the Americas," however, argues that the new administration should focus early and strategically on Latin America.
Our neighbors to the south impact daily on the lives of U.S. citizens, on issues such as energy, narcotics, immigration,...
The Obama administration inherits a daunting set of domestic and international policy challenges. It would be tempting to put Latin America and the...
As new democratic regimes take root in Latin America, two of the most striking developments have been a dramatic rise in crime rates and increased perception of insecurity among its citizens. The contributors to this book offer a collective assessment of some of the causes for the alarming rise in criminal activity in the region. They also explore the institutional obstacles that states confront in the effort to curb criminality and build a fairer and more efficient criminal justice system; the connections between those obstacles and larger sociopolitical patterns; and the challenges that...
As new democratic regimes take root in Latin America, two of the most striking developments have been a dramatic rise in crime rates and increased ...
In the spring of 2009, Brookings published The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change. As the Obama administration approaches its two-year mark, the editors of that insightful volume follow it with a new book looking at what Obama and his team have done thus far in regards to Latin America and the Caribbean, what current relations are, and what steps should be taken in the near future.
In the spring of 2009, Brookings published The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change. As the Obama administration approaches its tw...
The biggest contemporary challenge to democratic legitimacy gravitates around the crisis of democratic representation. To tackle this problem, a growing number of established and new democracies included direct democratic instruments in their constitutions, enabling citizens to have direct influence on democratic decision-making. However, there are many different empirical manifestations of direct democracy, and their diverse consequences for representative democracy remain an understudied topic. Let the People Rule? aims to fill this gap, analysing the multifaceted consequences of direct...
The biggest contemporary challenge to democratic legitimacy gravitates around the crisis of democratic representation. To tackle this problem, a growi...
The biggest contemporary challenge to democratic legitimacy gravitates around the crisis of democratic representation.
To tackle this problem, a growing number of established and new democracies included direct democratic instruments in their constitutions, enabling citizens to have direct influence on democratic decision-making. However, there are many different empirical manifestations of direct democracy, and their diverse consequences for representative democracy remain an understudied topic.
Let the People Rule? aims to fill this...
The biggest contemporary challenge to democratic legitimacy gravitates around the crisis of democratic representation.
