The lackluster appointment in Los Last Database Angeles, in the midst of doubts about the participation of several leaders and the unilateral exclusion of countries, coincides with conjunctural elements and longer-term changes in the regional and global scenario. Neither in Latin America nor in the United States does the house seem to be in order. <p>1994-2022: the Summit of the Americas and the "frustrated superpower syndrome"</p> The IX Last Database Summit of the Americas (which takes place in Los Angeles between June 6 and 10) began with doubts about the participation of Last Database several heads of state, significant absences and exclusions .
Along with the situation, there are Last Database deeper reasons for the climate of apathy that prevails in the conclave. A comparison between the two Summits of the Americas hosted by the United States can give us a better idea of ​​how much the world, Washington, and Latin Last Database America have changed. The First Summit of the Americas in 1994, held in Miami during the Bill Clinton administration, had a unique setting. The Last Database United States in particular and the West in general were the winners of the Cold War.
Washington Last Database was primus inter paresand it had a remarkable opportunity to shape what was by then - and for lack of a better name - called the Post-Cold War. The Soviet Union had imploded and Russia was a shrinking power with a huge nuclear Last Database arsenal but a shattered material base and greatly diminished power projection. China was, in those years, a rising country, but it had not yet become a great regional power or a Last Database superpower with global reach. And Europe chose to enlarge the European Union instead of deepening its unifying experience. Latin America was leaving behind the coups d'état and the democratic transition was consolidating in a gradual Last Database but promising way. The world proclaimed the "peace dividends.