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JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA is Professor of Latin American politics at New York University and the author of America Through Foreign Eyes. He served as Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003.

FORREST D. COLBURN teaches at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the INCAE Business School. His most recent book is Colonialism, Independence, and the Construction of Nation-States.