Obama Doctrine in the Americas

Hanna S. Kassab is visiting professor at Northern Michigan University.Jonathan D. Rosen is a research analyst at Florida International University’s Applied Research Center.

• 1The Obama Administration’s Policy Challenges in the Western HemisphereTed Galen Carpenter2The Obama Doctrine and CubaDario Moreno and Maria Ilcheva3The Obama Doctrine in HaitiChrista L. Remington and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor4U.S. Foreign Policy and the Caribbean Region: The Case of Trinidad and TobagoDianne Williams5The Violence of El Salvador: The Obama Doctrine and the Illiberal TemptationBradford R. McGuinn6Has Obama Forgotten about Mexico? An Examination of Obama’s Foreign Policy and U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Relations (2009–2015)Roberto Zepeda Martínez and Jonathan D. Rosen7Shifting Priorities and Engaging the Peace Process: U.S.-Colombian Relations in the Obama EraVictor J. Hinojosa8The Obama Administration and PeruBarnett S. Koven and Cynthia McClintock9U.S.-Bolivian Relations in Times of ChangeEduardo A. Gamarra10The Failure of Engagement: U.S.-Venezuela Relations under ObamaOrlando J. Pérez11Brazil-U.S. Security Relations during the Obama EraRalph H. Espach12So Far From the Obama Doctrine: A View from ArgentinaKhatchik DerGhougassian and María Belén Ahumada13Obama’s “Canada” Doctrine and the Campaign against TerrorismAthanasios Hristoulas and Oliver Santín Peña14Regional Differences in Obama’s Foreign Policy: A Theoretical ApproachHanna S. Kassab and Jonathan D. Rosen

The contributing authors examine the major shifts in policies toward security, drug trafficking, crime and terrorism in relation to Latin America that accompanied the foreign-policy transition from US president George W. Bush to Barack Obama.