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The countries of the Western Hemisphere have been closely connected economically, politically, and socially for most of their modern existence. Growing trade links, increased migrant and refugee flows, internal challenges of corruption and crime, and spillover from failed states are making these connections more important and require closer cooperation between governments and societies to maintain stability, address common challenges, and maximize prosperity across all of the Americas

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LatAmSource

Feb 10, 2014

Next Steps: How President Obama Should Advance US-Cuba Relations

By Ted Piccone

In 2009, President Obama began relaxing tough sanctions on Cuba, expanding the free flow of people and remittances and planting the seeds of a new paradigm for U.S.-Cuba relations – one that looks beyond the outdated Cold War-era approach that has been employed for so long.

Cuba

LatAmSource

Feb 10, 2014

The Beginning of the End

By Pedro Freyre and Matthew Aho

The results of the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center poll on Americans’ attitudes on U.S.–Cuba relations can be interpreted in only one way: the tide of U. S. public opinion has turned away from isolation and toward engagement and normalization.

Cuba

LatAmSource

Feb 10, 2014

Twin Failures

By Peter Hakim

Last month’s meeting in Havana of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which incorportates every country of the hemisphere except the United States and Canada, was a celebration of the single point of consensus among the Community’s member states: their opposition to US policies that seek to isolate and punish Cuba, which […]

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Report

Feb 10, 2014

US-Cuba: A New Public Survey Supports Policy Change

By Peter Schechter and Jason Marczak

Why is now the right moment to commission a poll on the US public’s views toward Cuba and US-Cuba relations? Why is a new, nonpartisan Latin America center reaching out to grab the third rail of Latin American foreign policy in the United States? Both good questions. Sometimes in foreign policy, structural impediments or stark […]

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Feb 10, 2014

Frequently Asked Questions on the Cuba Poll

By Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center

1. Why is a think tank conducting a political poll? As a fresh, non-partisan voice in the Latin American policy scene, the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center is dedicated to exploring the growing interconnection among countries of the Western Hemisphere. With more than 80 percent growth in trade in the last decade, Latin […]

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USS Donald Cook

NATOSource

Feb 10, 2014

The Next Chapter in European Presence and Partnerships

By Bruce W. Clingan, US Navy

USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) is heading east, on a course that will make the ship the first of four destroyers to be forward deployed in the Naval Forces Europe operating area.

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French soldier in Afghanistan, Feb. 7, 2010

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Feb 10, 2014

New Era in French-American Military Cooperation

By François Heisbourg, New York Times

France worries deeply — as do other European and Middle Eastern allies — about America’s foreign policy shift after Iraq and Afghanistan, its reluctance to put American forces in the front line in the world’s trouble spots.

Europe & Eurasia France

LatAmSource

Feb 10, 2014

Prospects of Relationship between Cuba and the United States

By Miriam Leiva

(translated from Spanish) Cuba has been used in the confrontation with the United States to isolate Cubans from the outside world, justify the failures of the plans executed by the will of Fidel Castro , violate the rights and suppress any different opinion than that authorized by the government.

Cuba Latin America

LatAmSource

Feb 10, 2014

Changing the Political Calculus on Cuba

By William M. LeoGrande

When it comes to controversial issues, the public is often far ahead of politicians in supporting sensible policy alternatives. Issues that are intensely salient to small constituencies scare the daylights out of elected officials because the committed single-issue voter poses a greater electoral threat than the pragmatic general public, whose votes are rarely determined by […]

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Feb 10, 2014

Leahy, Flake: Time for a New Policy on Cuba

Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) write in the Miami Herald on the findings of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center’s poll on US attitudes towards Cuba:

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