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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... reasons for the weaknesses : divergent interests , unrelated development institutions , inarticulate development pri- orities , and lack of funding . First and most complex are the divergent polit- ical purposes distinguishing South ...
... reasons for the weaknesses : divergent interests , unrelated development institutions , inarticulate development pri- orities , and lack of funding . First and most complex are the divergent polit- ical purposes distinguishing South ...
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... reasons behind this slippage between the principals ( the leaders ) and the agents ( the two regional institutions ) . Al- though understanding the creation of international institutions has long been central to the study of world ...
... reasons behind this slippage between the principals ( the leaders ) and the agents ( the two regional institutions ) . Al- though understanding the creation of international institutions has long been central to the study of world ...
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... reasons to look favorably on summits , whereas the IDB , governed by rival finance ministries and already stuffed with mandates and replenished with resources , had good reasons to remain aloof . Competing mandates and internal ...
... reasons to look favorably on summits , whereas the IDB , governed by rival finance ministries and already stuffed with mandates and replenished with resources , had good reasons to remain aloof . Competing mandates and internal ...
Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
Copyright | |
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action activities actors adopted agencies agenda Americas areas armed authority Bank Board building Canada Caribbean Central challenge civil society Commission commitments Committee Community concerns convention cooperation coordination Council countries court created crisis CSBMs defense delegation democracy Democratic Charter discussion domestic economic effective efforts established example existing forces foreign free trade FTAA funding global governments groups growth hemispheric human rights IACHR implementation important increase inequality influence initiatives institutions integration inter-American inter-American system interests issues lack Latin American leaders limited major mandates measures mechanism meeting ment military ministers ministries NAFTA negotiations norms organizations participation period political poverty preferences President problem promote reforms regarding regime regional relations remains reports representative respect response result role rules social specific strengthen structure subregional summit summitry tion trade agreements Treaty United World