The Road to Hemispheric Cooperation: Beyond the Cartagena

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Latin America Initiative undertook an intensive review of
the state of hemispheric cooperation as part of its overarching
mission to derive practical policy recommendations from
rigorous, empirical research. The authors of these papers are
to be congratulated for meeting this standard. We are also indebted
to the State Department, particularly John Feeley, Dan
Erikson and Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, for their active participation
and input. We want to give special thanks to the team of the
Latin America Initiative—Consuelo Amat, who coordinated this
final publication with utmost professionalism, Diana Caicedo,
Carlos Aramayo, Emily Alinikoff and Ashley Miller—and to
Carol Graham and Kevin Casas-Zamora for their leadership
as the Initiative prepared to welcome its new Director, Dr. Ernesto
Talvi. We also extend our warm appreciation to Diana
Villiers Negroponte, Vanda Felbab-Brown and Richard Feinberg
for their expert advice and commentary.
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