Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions

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Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Paul Alexander Haslam
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007 - Inter-American conferences - 317 pages
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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 had the potential to change that perception dramatically by having the presidents and prime ministers define the course of hemi- spheric regionalism and , in so doing , provide greater authority and legiti- macy to inter ...
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An Uneven Institutional Response Institutionalized 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 ...
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Cuba remains a charter member of the OAS , even if its participation has been suspended since Fidel Castro rose to power , and it has been ex- cluded from summitry for not meeting the “ democratically elected " crite- ria established by ...

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Contents

An Overview
13
A Sisyphean Endeavor?
35
The OAS and the
51
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

Gordon Mace is professor of political science at Laval University and director of the University's Inter-American Studies Center. He is also director of the journal Etudes internationales. Among his publications are Foreign Policy and Regionalism in the Americas and The Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism. Jean-Philippe Therien is professor of political science and assistant scientific director of CERIUM at the University of Montreal. He is coauthor of Foreign Policy and Regionalism in the Americas. Paul A. Haslam is assistant professor of international development at the University of Ottawa.

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TitleGoverning the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions
EditorsGordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, Paul Alexander Haslam
Editionillustrated
PublisherLynne Rienner Publishers, 2007
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized23 Oct 2008
ISBN1588265331, 9781588265333
Length317 pages
  
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