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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... hemispheric regionalism , the ministerials adapt and build the agenda for each sector , and the SIRG super- vises the execution and reporting to the ministers of foreign affairs . Alongside the decisionmaking structure is an ...
... hemispheric regionalism , the ministerials adapt and build the agenda for each sector , and the SIRG super- vises the execution and reporting to the ministers of foreign affairs . Alongside the decisionmaking structure is an ...
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... hemispheric cooperation continues to encounter stubborn obstacles . This ambiguous situation is inherent to each of the four issues that now comprise the core of the hemispheric agenda : governance , democracy , security , and the ...
... hemispheric cooperation continues to encounter stubborn obstacles . This ambiguous situation is inherent to each of the four issues that now comprise the core of the hemispheric agenda : governance , democracy , security , and the ...
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... hemispheric integration . A more fundamental way of dealing with this problem would be to design a free trade area project involving measures that take into account the enormous economic dispari- ties between the large and small ...
... hemispheric integration . A more fundamental way of dealing with this problem would be to design a free trade area project involving measures that take into account the enormous economic dispari- ties between the large and small ...
Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
Copyright | |
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