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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... summitry was to give unprecedented visibility to the inter - American system . Up to 1994 , public interest concerning OAS affairs was essentially limited to the small policy community around the organi- zation . What summitry did was ...
... summitry was to give unprecedented visibility to the inter - American system . Up to 1994 , public interest concerning OAS affairs was essentially limited to the small policy community around the organi- zation . What summitry did was ...
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... summitry is the highest form of multilateralism . It assem- bles the highest authorities of states to engage in collective action . Sum- mitry among the industrialized nations was the subject of an early study by Robert Putnam and ...
... summitry is the highest form of multilateralism . It assem- bles the highest authorities of states to engage in collective action . Sum- mitry among the industrialized nations was the subject of an early study by Robert Putnam and ...
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... summitry . The commitment of former secretary - general Gaviria to summit imple- mentation and to binding the OAS to summitry has been pivotal . Before Gaviria took the helm , during the preparation for the 1994 Miami summit and in its ...
... summitry . The commitment of former secretary - general Gaviria to summit imple- mentation and to binding the OAS to summitry has been pivotal . Before Gaviria took the helm , during the preparation for the 1994 Miami summit and in its ...
Contents
An Overview | 13 |
A Sisyphean Endeavor? | 35 |
The OAS and the | 51 |
Copyright | |
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actors adopted agencies American countries Americas Andean areas Argentina bilateral Brazil Canada Caribbean Central American challenge Chile civil society Commission Committee on Hemispheric consensus convention coordination court created crisis CSBMs Declaration delegation democracy Development Bank disputes domestic ECLAC foreign framework Free Trade Agreement FTAA Gaviria global groups hemi hemispheric regionalism Hemispheric Security Hugo Chávez human rights IACHR IACourt implementation inequality institutional design inter-American cooperation Inter-American Defense Board Inter-American Democratic Charter Inter-American Development Bank inter-American governance inter-American institutions inter-American system Latin American Mar del Plata ment Mercosur Mexico military ministers ministries multilateral NAFTA negotiations networks norms OAS's organizations participation percent plans of action political poverty President problem promote reforms regime regional institutions relations response Rio Group role rules of origin Santiago Secretariat sector security agenda social strategy strengthen structure subregional summit mandates summit process summitry tariff threats tion transnational Treaty United Washington consensus