Luigi Einaudi, 11/08/2012
The Organization of American States Charter declares that “the historic mission of America is to offer to man a land of liberty.” In reality, of course, the Americas have never been united except in the western mythology of the New World. Its countries have shifting relationships, sometimes drifting apart, other times coalescing sub regionally. It is nearly sixty years since the historian Arthur Whitaker declared that the Western Hemisphere Ideal, the “proposition that the peoples of this Hemisphere stand in a special relationship to one another which sets them apart from the rest of the world” was in irreversible decline.So a question arises: Do hemispheric relations still have a unique place in this globalizing world?
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