[CMI-Chiapas] Americas Program | Trilateral Meeting Shows Good Intentions, Few Solutions

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What's New at the Americas Program
“A New World of Ideas, Analysis and Policy Options”
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March 24, 2005
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New from the IRC's Americas Program:

North American Leaders’ Meeting Shows Good Intentions, Few Solutions
By Laura Carlsen

If you get your news from the U.S. media, the trilateral meeting between the 
North American heads of state was mostly a feel-good session to smooth over 
ruffled feathers in relationships over the past years. Given the lack of content 
in the official declarations, you have to wonder why they even bothered at 
all. 

But the real agenda was a little more complex. To understand what happened 
at the recent North American summit, you have to read between the lines of 
the chummy public pronouncements. 

The “trilateral relationship” continues to be a double bilateral relationship, 
mediated not just geographically but diplomatically by the central power—the 
United States. The agendas of the junior partners—Canada on dispute resolution 
mechanisms, Mexico on immigration—received only cursory and rhetorical attention 
while U.S.-defined security took precedence over daily realities.

Laura Carlsen directs the Americas Program of the International Relations Center 
(IRC), online at http://www.irc-online.org.

See complete new paper online at:
http://www.americaspolicy.org/commentary/2005/0503summit.html

With printer-friendly PDF version at: 
http://www.americaspolicy.org/pdf/commentary/0503summit.pdf

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