Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I STORMY RELATIONSHIPS, NEW DYNAMICS -- 1 Global Wallflower: Overlooking the Americas in U.S. Foreign Relations -- 2 The United States and Latin America: Tackling History -- 3 U. S. Security: Shifting Realities -- 4 The Emerging Inter-American Partnership -- 5 The Trauma of the 1980s -- 6 Where the Puck Is Going: The World Changes -- 7 Poverty and the Lack of Education: The Dormant Volcano -- 8 Undermining Prosperity: Corruption and Narcotics -- PART II THE AMERICAS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: Building a Greater America -- 9 Commerce and Foreign Policy -- 10 The New Americans -- 11 The New Geopolitics of Latin America -- 12 The Muse of the Markets -- 13 Trade and Integration -- 14 Investment and Economic Growth -- 15 Building a Greater America -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.