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The Americas face daunting, interlinked challenges not seen in over four decades, impacting the contours and dynamics of Inter-American relations. This policy seminar course exposes students to the current dynamics prevalent in the complex web of relationships between Washington and other Latin American and Caribbean capitals, and the diplomatic and geopolitical dynamics at play across the continent at a time of growing global uncertainty. In recent years, some of the hemisphere’s disturbing trends, such as political and social polarization and dysfunctional governance, institutional erosion or distrust in government and institutions have been compounded by a challenging mix of growing public insecurity, income inequality, social and economic dislocation, the impact of climate change, migration flows, and a growing footprint and appetite by extra-regional revisionist powers, amongst other salient issues. The course is structured around a specific set of policy issues relevant in the Americas today. Each topic module, designed to analyze and understand policymaking processes across the region, will cover and address both the policies at stake and key relationships and stakeholders (State and non-State actors). In the face of a serious lack of regional and subregional cooperation and common Inter-American purpose to find practical, constructive solutions to many of those challenges, students will be encouraged throughout the course, via policy memos and simulation exercises, to debate -as applied professionals or practitioners- specific policy issues and craft policy resolution roadmaps, with both U.S. and Latin American and Caribbean perspectives in mind.