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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Page 113
Less than two decades before , at the height of the Cold War , the human rights and democracy record of the countries of the Americas seemingly mattered less to inter - American diplomacy than their commitment to the struggle against ...
Less than two decades before , at the height of the Cold War , the human rights and democracy record of the countries of the Americas seemingly mattered less to inter - American diplomacy than their commitment to the struggle against ...
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... indigenous rights , and the less conflictive aspects of pro- environmental issues . 16 But regardless of future developments , what changes in strategies can we expect from the “ outsiders ” in the current new conjuncture ?
... indigenous rights , and the less conflictive aspects of pro- environmental issues . 16 But regardless of future developments , what changes in strategies can we expect from the “ outsiders ” in the current new conjuncture ?
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It is risky , however , to approach the future without a decent under- standing of what has gone right and wrong in the past , and here we are much less well placed than would be desirable . Since the most dramatic failure occurred in ...
It is risky , however , to approach the future without a decent under- standing of what has gone right and wrong in the past , and here we are much less well placed than would be desirable . Since the most dramatic failure occurred in ...
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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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