Latin America Trending towards Beijing, Washington, or its Southern Star

According to Dr. Cynthia Watson "Latin America is much in the news because a number of leaders are under scrutiny for corruption, the Chinese are involved in a manner they have never been historically, and the United States is absorbed in issues elsewhere.  The region is showing some evidence of achieving the conditions the U.S. has long hoped for--absorbing the rule of law, calling its international relationships to adhere to standards, and trying to create a genuinely Latin American path towards sustained development.”  
 
Please join us to find out what is really going on in Latin America today.

Cynthia Watson grew up in Thailand and Colombia.  She earned a M.A. in Economic History/Latin American Studies from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Government & International Studies from Notre Dame. She was 2011 Alumna of the Year at University of Missouri at Kansas City.  Author of nine books on security issues, including Combatant Commands: Origins, Structure and Engagements (2011), Stability, Security, Reconstruction and Transition Operations (2012), and Military Education (2007), she focuses on military education as an instrument of statecraft as well as China’s modernizing and its effect on security relations, having worked on China in Latin America for the past fifteen years.  Her most recent manuscript is Asia First: Reflecting or Refracting Strategy?, assessing the use of strategy to achieve the rebalance to Asia and the future of the United States around the world.  

Dr. Watson joined the National War College faculty in 1992.  She was Assistant Dean for Social Sciences at Loyola University of Chicago where she also taught Political Science.  Dr. Watson worked for the House Subcommittee on Government Information & Individual Rights as well as the U.S. General Accounting Office.   She is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
 
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