Since 1999, Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union (EU) have maintained a Bi-regional Strategic Partnership mechanism: 27 countries on the European side, 33 in the American hemisphere. While all participants adhere to the Westphalian principle of the legal equality of states, it is clear that not all of them carry the same weight in world politics, nor in decision-making within their respective regions when it comes to defining policies toward the other side of the Atlantic....