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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... representative democracy Linkage between representative democracy and human rights Linkage between representative democracy and combating poverty Crisis prevention ( self - help and community watch ) Democratic membership criterion ...
... representative democracy Linkage between representative democracy and human rights Linkage between representative democracy and combating poverty Crisis prevention ( self - help and community watch ) Democratic membership criterion ...
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Challenges and the Existing Institutions The debt crisis debacle . The biggest institutional failure of the last quarter century , mainly attributable to the international institutions , was the inability to ward off the disastrous ...
Challenges and the Existing Institutions The debt crisis debacle . The biggest institutional failure of the last quarter century , mainly attributable to the international institutions , was the inability to ward off the disastrous ...
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11 If international institutions do not step forward , the main responsibility for fending off future crises will continue to ... One danger is that the process of making domestic financial systems less vulnerable to crisis — which is ...
11 If international institutions do not step forward , the main responsibility for fending off future crises will continue to ... One danger is that the process of making domestic financial systems less vulnerable to crisis — which is ...
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Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions |
| Editors | Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Paul Alexander Haslam |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 1588265331, 9781588265333 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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