The Americas in Transition: The Contours of RegionalismThe FTA, Mercosur, the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, NAFTA, the Summit of the Americas - do these constitute building blocks in the construction of a new regional system? This book explores that question, offering an assessment of the state of regionalism in the Americas. |
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Contents
The Origins Nature and Scope of the Hemispheric Project | 19 |
Two Competing Models? | 69 |
U S Foreign Policy and the Regionalist Option | 95 |
Brazils Alternative Vision | 133 |
Middle States | 153 |
The Organization of American States | 175 |
A Provisional Assessment | 241 |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | 255 |
The Contributors | 281 |
About the Book | 299 |
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actors American Free Trade Americas Andean Andean Pact Argentina barriers behavior bilateral Brazil Brazilian Canada Canadian Caribbean Chapter Chile coalitions Cold War Common Market Congress Congressional Record 1993 context continental integration cooperation countries democracy and human democratic diplomatic domestic economic integration exports foreign policy Free Trade Agreement free trade area FTAA gional global groups Haiti hegemonic hemi hemispheric integration hemispheric regionalism human rights Hurrell important industrial initiatives institutions integration process inter-American interests involved issues labor Latin American liberalization Maquiladora ment Mercosur Mexican Mexico Miami summit middle middle-state MNCs multilateral NAFTA NAFTA and Mercosur negotiations neoliberal nomic North American OAS's Organization of American percent political culture position promotion regime regional integration regionalist regionalist project relations representative role sectors Senate situation social movements Southern Cone strategy structural subregional tariff tion U.S. Congress Union United Venezuela Washington Western Hemisphere
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Page 273 - Europe, has cooperative relations with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, and has observer status with the Organization of African Unity.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism |
| Authors | Gordon Mace, Louis Bélanger |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1555877176, 9781555877170 |
| Length | 299 pages |
| Subjects | › › Political Science / International Relations / General |
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