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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... summit meetings of ministers from different sectors to encourage senior officials and technical experts to inter- act among themselves . The presidential summit machinery , however , had a serious contradic- tion . It was centralized at ...
... summit meetings of ministers from different sectors to encourage senior officials and technical experts to inter- act among themselves . The presidential summit machinery , however , had a serious contradic- tion . It was centralized at ...
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... summit mandates are inte- grated or not with existing institutional mandates and alternative sources of authority ; • Institutional missions : the health of the existing institutional mission and the financing that supports it ...
... summit mandates are inte- grated or not with existing institutional mandates and alternative sources of authority ; • Institutional missions : the health of the existing institutional mission and the financing that supports it ...
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... summit follow - up and preparing future summit agendas . Initially governments sent foreign ministry officials and sectoral experts from capitals to attend SIRG meetings , but over time many governments delegated representation to OAS ...
... summit follow - up and preparing future summit agendas . Initially governments sent foreign ministry officials and sectoral experts from capitals to attend SIRG meetings , but over time many governments delegated representation to OAS ...
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