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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... factor had to do with the US interventions in Guate- mala in 1954 and in the Dominican Republic in 1965. They ... factors linked to the international context were also at work . One of them was the Cuban Revolution of 1958 , which ...
... factor had to do with the US interventions in Guate- mala in 1954 and in the Dominican Republic in 1965. They ... factors linked to the international context were also at work . One of them was the Cuban Revolution of 1958 , which ...
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... factors , they all emphasize predominantly rationalist causal processes.2 All three view actors as behaving purposively , calculating how to further their interests given material and political constraints , and acting strategically ...
... factors , they all emphasize predominantly rationalist causal processes.2 All three view actors as behaving purposively , calculating how to further their interests given material and political constraints , and acting strategically ...
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... factors explaining the shift that occurred in 1994 after more than twenty - five years of relative paralysis in inter- American cooperation . Some factors were external to the region and had to do with the end of the Cold War and the ...
... factors explaining the shift that occurred in 1994 after more than twenty - five years of relative paralysis in inter- American cooperation . Some factors were external to the region and had to do with the end of the Cold War and the ...
Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
Copyright | |
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