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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... tariff concessions , most recent trade agreements signed by Latin American countries include a universal , automatic , and across - the - board elimination of tariff barriers ( da Motta Veiga 2004 ) , as well as new disciplines .
... tariff concessions , most recent trade agreements signed by Latin American countries include a universal , automatic , and across - the - board elimination of tariff barriers ( da Motta Veiga 2004 ) , as well as new disciplines .
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Many disciplines — including sociology , economics , political science , and organization theory - study institutions , all applying their own defini— tions . Yet virtually all treat as institutions a wide range of explicit and implicit ...
Many disciplines — including sociology , economics , political science , and organization theory - study institutions , all applying their own defini— tions . Yet virtually all treat as institutions a wide range of explicit and implicit ...
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Despite broad support for the free trade ideal , subregional agreements are sufficiently incompatible in terms of disciplines and legal style to complicate their harmonization in an FTAA . As Louis Bélanger pointed out in Chapter 11 ...
Despite broad support for the free trade ideal , subregional agreements are sufficiently incompatible in terms of disciplines and legal style to complicate their harmonization in an FTAA . As Louis Bélanger pointed out in Chapter 11 ...
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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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