Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral InstitutionsGordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Paul Alexander Haslam This is a systematic assessment of the functioning of hemispheric institutions since the introduction of the Summit of the Americas process in 1994. The text evaluates the effectiveness of inter-American institutions with regard to core issues of democratic governance, security, trade, and economic development. |
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... Japan . Might the nonregionals - who do not sign the sum- mit texts - be major roadblocks to IDB follow - up of summit mandates ? Formally , the IDB is governed by a system of weighted voting power that reserves only 16 percent for the ...
... Japan . Might the nonregionals - who do not sign the sum- mit texts - be major roadblocks to IDB follow - up of summit mandates ? Formally , the IDB is governed by a system of weighted voting power that reserves only 16 percent for the ...
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... Japan and European states , but they have no voting power . So the OAS does not face the problem that the IDB has with voting mem- bers that do not participate in Western Hemisphere summitry . The commitment of former secretary ...
... Japan and European states , but they have no voting power . So the OAS does not face the problem that the IDB has with voting mem- bers that do not participate in Western Hemisphere summitry . The commitment of former secretary ...
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... Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . Set up as a planning body , it was charged with studying problems of hemispheric defense and recommending solutions ( see Atkins 1999 : 230 ) . The Board was not mentioned in the 1948 OAS Charter , but ...
... Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . Set up as a planning body , it was charged with studying problems of hemispheric defense and recommending solutions ( see Atkins 1999 : 230 ) . The Board was not mentioned in the 1948 OAS Charter , but ...
Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
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