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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