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Interest groups stalemated the small ideas while inhibiting the bolder proposals, and the governments accomplished almost nothing.   To overcome this resistance and reinvigorate the continent, the leaders need to start with an idea based on a principle of interdependence. Pastor shows how this idea--once woven into the national consciousness of the three countries--could mobilize public support for continental solutions to problems like infrastructure and immigration that have confounded each nation working on its own. 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