The Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism

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Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1 janv. 1999 - 299 pages
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The 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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Page 15 - ... Political integration is the process whereby political actors in several distinct national settings are persuaded to shift their loyalties, expectations and political activities toward a new centre, whose institutions possess or demand jurisdiction over the pre-existing national states. The end result of a process of political integration is a new political community, superimposed over the pre-existing ones.
Page 15 - INTEGRATION we mean the attainment, within a territory, of a "sense of community" and of institutions and practices strong enough and widespread enough to assure, for a "long" time, dependable expectations of "peaceful change
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.
Page 25 - In the name of their Peoples, the Governments represented at the InterAmerican Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security...
Page 15 - The process whereby nations forgo the desire and ability to conduct foreign and key domestic policies independently of each other...
Page 187 - Women and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women.
Page 102 - The successor to a doctrine of containment must be a strategy of enlargement — enlargement of the world's free community of market democracies.
Page 56 - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Page 2 - The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1952...
Page 16 - The New Regionalism can be defined as a multidimensional process of regional integration which includes economic, political, social and cultural aspects. It is a package rather than a single policy and goes beyond the free trade market idea: ie, the interlinkage of previously more or less secluded national markets into one functional economic unit.

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Gordon Mace is professor in the Department of Political Science and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies at Laval University.

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