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A Post-Hegemonic Paradise in Latin America?

By Daniel W. Drezner

An article of AQ's new winter issue explains how the region can turn a multipolar world to its advantage, and stay friendly with the U.S.

As Latin America tries to get a better grip on the precise contours of the post-Great Recession world order, a few assumptions have calcified into conventional wisdom. The first assumption is that the United States is no longer the hegemonic actor in the Western Hemisphere. Plagued by low growth, partisan gridlock, and the need to put out foreign policy fires elsewhere, the Barack Obama administration has put Latin America very low on its priority list. At the same time, the growth of the Chinese and Indian economies, as well as the BRICS grouping, has made those countries attractive...

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