WIlliam R. Rhodes:
Chairman, Americas Society/Council of the Americas; President & Chief Executive Officer, Citibank, N.A.; Chairman, President, & Chief Executive Officer, Citicorp Holdings Inc.; Senior Vice Chairman, Citi
"As Chairman of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas and having worked in Latin America for over 40 years, I am particularly excited by the prospect of the Americas Quarterly and the impact it can have. I am confident that it will play a unique role in shaping the political and economic debate for years to come."

David Rockefeller
Honorary Chairman, Americas Society and Council of the Americas
“For more than forty years, the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas have actively convened leaders who have shaped the debate on critical issues confronting this hemisphere. With the launch of Americas Quarterly, we now enter a new phase. These polarized times require a moderate forum where the private sector, scholars, activists, policymakers and – perhaps most of all – leaders from the emerging generation can come together to analyze and debate the region's future. In recent years many have spoken about a ‘community in the Americas.’ This new journal, I believe, will give that community a strong voice.”

George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States
“There is a significant need for this new journal. Given some of the challenges in the hemisphere, ‘Americas Quarterly’ is coming along at a critically important time for the U.S. and our hemispheric friends.”

Eliot Engel
Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere 
         
“Congratulations on the upcoming launch of Americas Quarterly. As the new Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, I am delighted by the Council of the Americas’ effort to re-energize the policy discussion on Latin America and engage a new generation of leaders on U.S.–Latin American relations.”

“The launch of Americas Quarterly could not come at a better time. There is a real need to enrich the debate on policy issues facing U.S. and Latin American decision-makers. Americas Quarterly will do just that. As Chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, I look forward to using Americas Quarterly as a key resource for myself and members of the Subcommittee.”

“Again, congratulations and best of luck. I look forward to reading Americas Quarterly in the coming months.”

Richard Feinberg
Professor, International Political Economy and Pacific Studies and Director, APEC Study Center, University of California, San Diego
"The Western Hemisphere presents the total package - flourishing economies, steamy politics, charismatic champions and clashing interpretations of the just society.  The region's deep democratic awakening has unleashed new social forces, while more stable macro-economies are striving fiercely for competitiveness at the global scale. The Americas Quarterly promises to gain for the Americas the respect – and the quality attention – the region so definitely deserves. We can look to Americas Quarterly to provide fresh, compelling ideas for this extremely promising new era in inter-American relations."

Albert Fishlow
Director, Center for Brazilian Studies, Columbia University
“Because democracy is flourishing in the region, and economic growth has recovered to levels attained before the second – and definitive – oil price rise in 1979, there are now important debates about future policies that should reach a wider audience–both in the United States and Latin America. The editorial board that has been put together is first-rate, combining political participants and academics, as well as spanning the region. This is a journal that everyone interested in the Americas will want to follow.”

Arminio Fraga Neto
President, Gávea Investimentos & former President, Central Bank of Brazil
“Americas Quarterly is a wonderful and timely initiative of the Council of the Americas. It comes at an important moment for the region for a few reasons that merit urgent debate. At the top of the list is a feeling that some countries in the region are moving further and further away from a path of democratic development. Second, there is a need for the hemisphere to rethink its common future. And lastly, there is a need for a deeper and more committed dialogue between the US and the other countries so as to create some credible momentum towards greater regional integration. Congratulations and all the best!”

Merilee Grindle
Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
“This new journal provides a welcome space for the discussion of critical issues that affect the present and future of Latin America's development.”

Jerry Haar
Professor of Management and International Business, College of Business Administration, Florida International University
“Kudos are due for the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, a highly respected and indispensable policy forum on inter-American issues. The launch of Americas Quarterly fills the void for a journal that tackles timely and relevant Hemisphere issues in politics, economics, commerce, and social policy with clear reasoning, thoughtful analysis and cogent writing. Additionally, by drawing on contributions from the "big names" in inter-American affairs as well as fresh young scholars, writers, and entrepreneurs, Americas Quarterly will appeal to a broad audience of professionals, academics, students, policymakers and concerned citizens. This new journal now joins The Economist, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs on my nightstand for essential bedtime reading."

Richard Lapper
Latin America Editor, Financial Times
“Latin American democracy has become more deeply entrenched and its economies more stable in recent years. But despite these advances, the region still faces some serious and complex development problems. Hopefully, Americas Quarterly can help the search for solutions. It is a welcome initiative.”

Chappell Lawson
Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Americas Quarterly will be an incubator of new ideas about Latin American political economy, and it comes at a crucial time.  Neoliberalism has been discredited, as was import substitution industrialization, but what will replace these old paradigms?  Liberal democracy is still under challenge from the left; will it emerge stronger and deeper as a result, or is democratic consolidation now in jeopardy?  Readers of Americas Quarterly will find some of the answers in the pages of this new magazine.”

Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty
President, Kissinger McLarty Associates & former White House Chief of Staff

“The Americas Society/Council on the Americas has always been a premier forum for insightful hemispheric dialogue. Their welcome new policy journal is sure to expand that discussion's reach.”

“In a world grown smaller, the United States and its hemispheric neighbors are more interdependent than ever. The AS/COA's new policy journal will be a great asset in improving inter-American understanding, awareness, and dialogue.”

Marc F. Plattner and Larry Diamond
Editors, Journal of Democracy
“We are delighted to learn about your plans for launching a new journal devoted to discussing future policy alternatives for Latin America. It sounds as if you have put together a superb editorial board, and we greatly look forward both to seeing the first issue and to initiating a regular exchange of subscriptions between the Journal of Democracy and Americas Quarterly.”

Guillermo Perry
Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region,
The World Bank
“Americas Quarterly is a great initiative of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas. The Council has always provided a privileged forum for useful interchanges between policy makers, the private sector and opinion makers on hemispheric issues of mutual interest. The Quarterly initiative comes at a time when economic activity is in a boom in the Americas but policy and politics are in a state of flux and confusion. While most Governments continue to stimulate private sector led development, a few are falling back into heavy interventionism and statist temptations. Though there is a welcome renewed emphasis on social policies and anti poverty programs, effectiveness and quality of services are still an issue and advances in inequality and poverty reduction are modest. Bilateral and sub regional trade agreements prospects are uncertain and previous dreams of economic hemispheric integration appear to be frozen. I am sure that the Quarterly will be a great instrument to debate diverging views and to attempt to bring them closer in the pursuit of common purposes.
Congratulations!”

Dani Rodrik
Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 
“Ideas about the future of Latin America are yet again in flux, after a decade or two of certainty and consensus on the road forward. This journal promises to provide a fruitful forum for their discussion.”

Riordan Roett
Director, Western Hemisphere Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
“The decision to publish a new policy journal—Americas Quarterly—by the AS/COA is very good news indeed.  Given the myriad of policy challenges that governments in the hemisphere now face, a frank, independent forum will offer an opportunity to analyze and predict new policy trends and old problems that remain to be resolved.  Energy policy, the future of MERCOSUR, the region’s role in trade negotiations, both regional and global, and the consolidation of democracy are of very high priority. Latin America’s lagging competitiveness in the global economy is a topic that will require continued analysis can the countries in the region successfully compete with the ‘Asian Tigers?’  Is the growing presence of China in the hemisphere's economies a ‘win-win’ situation. A new, fresh look at these issues is most welcome.”

Susan Segal
President and CEO, Americas Society/Council of the Americas
“I am proud to announce the launch of Americas Quarterly, which promises an important impact on policy in the region. I also want to congratulate Chris Sabatini, the Editor-in-Chief, and his team for this initiative."