The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center was an independent research and educational institution established in 1984, first as the research component of the University of Miami's now-defunct Graduate School of International Studies, and later established by a 1991 Act of Congress "to promote better relations between the United States and the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean and Canada through cooperative study, training, and research."
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Mission and activities
Its mission was to improve relations and act as a catalyst for change among the United States, Canada, and the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean by advancing knowledge and understanding of the major political, social, economic, and cultural issues facing the nations and citizens of the Western Hemisphere. The Center conducted research and outreach on a range of Inter-American issues, including democratic governance, security, trade and economic policy, sustainable development, migration, civil society participation, narcotics trafficking, and inter-American business and labor issues. The Center served as the academic and operational home for the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs and its successor, Latin American Politics and Society, from 1984 until 2000. Through its in-house publishing arm, The North-South Center Press, the Center published policy-relevant research and commentary from its own wide range of research expertise and from collaborative projects with governmental and non-governmental partners in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. Throughout the Center's history its publications were distributed through Transaction Publishers and Lynne Rienner. The Center's research, outreach activities, and published works played a significant role in framing policy dialogue for key decision-makers and scholars, and non-governmental activists throughout the Americas. Its most seminal publications are still used in university classrooms, government agencies, and non-governmental institutions as resources for education and policy decision-making.
Prominent associates
Distinguished Fellows, associates and collaborators from 1984–2003 include: Sergio Aguayo, Felipe Aguero, Cresencio Arcos, Bernard Aronson, Bernardo Benes, C. Fred Bergsten, Richard Bernal, Anthony Bryan, Roberto Bouzas, Cole Blasier, Fernando Cepeda Ulloa, Charles Cobb, Sue Cobb, Isaac Cohen, Aaron Cosbey, Charles Dallara, Winston Dookeran, Cristina Eguizabal, Richard Feinberg, Leonel Fernández, Peter Field, Georges Fauriol, Steven Flynn, Alejandro Foxley, Eduardo Gamarra, Gustavo Gorriti, Wolf Grabendorff, Bob Graham, Lee H. Hamilton, Irving Louis Horowitz, Donna J. Hrinak, Irwin M. Jacobs, Daniel Jaime Gut, Yolanda Kakabadse, Jim Kolbe, Steven Landy, Manuel Lasaga, Abraham F. Lowenthal, Anthony Maingot, Max Manwaring, Luigi Manzetti, Gabriel Marcella, Mack McClarty, Jennifer McCoy, Frank McNeil, Richard Millett, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Moisés Naím, Ricardo Melendez Ortiz, Heraldo Muñoz, John O'Leary, Sylvia Ostry, Jeffrey Puryear, Beatrice Rangel, Bill Richardson, Kathleen Rogers, Joaquin Roy, Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada, Lynn Reinner, David Rockefeller, Francisco Rojas, Jose Salazar Xirinachs, Jacob Scherr, Stephan Schmidheiny, Jeffrey Schott, Andres Serbin, Jose Serra, Michael Shifter, Steve Stein, Jaime Suchlicki, Lloyd Timberlake, Sherry Tross, Aldo Vacs, Konrad Von Moltke, Sidney Weintraub, Carol Wise, Robert Zoellick.
Closure
The center was directed by Ambler H. Moss, JD.. The deputy director was Robin L. Rosenberg, Ph.D.. It was shut down at the end of 2003 for political reasons relating to the South Florida Cuban-American lobby. In a September 4, 2003 Miami Herald column, Andres Oppenheimer called the University of Miami's decision "dubious" and asked, "Has there been a right-wing coup at the University of Miami?"