Includes bibliographical references and index.

The changes in the international system since 2000 / Jorge I. Domínguez -- U.s.-mexican relations: coping with domestic and international crises / Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro -- The united states and cuba: intimate neighbors? / Marifeli Pérez-Stable -- U.s.-argentine relations: the years of cristina and obama / Roberto Russell -- The unsettled nature of u.s.-brazilian relations / Monica Hirst and Lia Baker Valls Pereira -- Chile and the united states: a cooperative friendship / Claudia Fuentes Julio and Francisco Rojas Aravena -- Colombia and the united states: the path to strategic partnership / Cynthia J. Arnson and Arlene B. Tickner -- U.s.-peruvian relations: cooperation within the international system of the twenty-first century / Cynthia McClintock -- U.s.-venezuelan relations after hugo chávez: why normalization has been impossible / Javier Corrales and Carlos A. Romero -- Latino diasporas, obama's executive action strategy, and u.s.-latin american relations / David R. Ayón -- Breaking the vicious cycle: criminal violence in u.s.-latin american relations / Gema Santamaría -- U.s. immigration policy: politicization and impasse / Allert Brown-Gort.