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Jan. 25, 2000                        

Latin America Expert Predicts Increased "Hemispheric Structure" in 21st
Century in Lawrence University Lecture 


     APPLETON, WIS. -- Robert Pastor, professor of political science at
Emory University specializing in Latin America affairs, says the coming
century will see a shift from one dominated by the United States of
America to one shared more equally by all of the "Americas."  
     As part of Lawrence University's on-going lecture series "Another
American Century?" Pastor presents "Will the 21st Be the Century of the
Americas?," Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in Main Hall Room 109.  The event
is free and open to the public. 
     In 1941, Time magazine publisher Henry Luce predicted that the 20th
century would be "America's century."  Pastor contends the 21st century
will be the century for all 34 governments in North and South America. 
     Pastor will discuss the prospects of greater regional integration
in finance and trade, a narrowing of cultural distances between the
United States and Latin America due to increased social integration and
a North American Free Trade Area expanding into issues such as
immigration and drugs.  He foresees the creation of a "hemispheric
structure" that will compete with the European Union and Japan's network
in Asia. 
     A former director of Latin America and Caribbean Affairs on the
National Security Council, Pastor has served as a foreign policy advisor
to each of the Democratic presidential candidates since 1976.  He is the
author of a dozen books, including 1999's "A Century's Journey:  How the
Great Powers Shape the World."  He was appointed the Goodrich C. White
Professor of International Relations at Emory in 1985.
     Lawrence's "Another American Century?" lecture series is sponsored
by the Lt. William Kellogg Harkins Jr. Values Program and the Mojmir
Polvolny Lectureship in International Studies, which promote interest
and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions.