The Organization of American States (OAS)

Herz, Mônica

doi:10.4324/9780203829240

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“…This bias is accentuated because regional cooperation of the early twentieth century happened largely within a Pan-American framework and the interamerican system, which is seen as distinct from the regional dynamics among Latin American states (but see Herz 2011; Weiffen et al 2013). Furthermore, focusing on the post-1945 period has led to a narrow understanding of the agenda of interamerican cooperation.…”

Section: Explaining the Changing Agenda For Regional Cooperationmentioning

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Setting the Regional Agenda: A Critique of Posthegemonic Regionalism

Petersen

Schulz

2018

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There is a growing scholarly consensus that Latin American regionalism has entered a new phase. For some observers, the increasing complexity of regional cooperation initiatives renders collective action ineffective. For others, the creation of new schemes signals a “posthegemonic” moment that has opened a space for collaboration on social issues. Both camps attribute this shift to the absence of the United States and the presence of left-leaning governments. By contrast, this study demonstrates that this agenda is not new, nor has the United States impeded similar initiatives in the past. In fact, the United States was instrumental in expanding regional cooperation on social issues in the early twentieth century. Instead, this article argues that agenda shifts are best explained by an evolving consensus about the role of the state. The “new agenda” is in line with historical attempts by governments to use regionalism to bolster their own domestic reforms.

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Section: Explaining the Changing Agenda For Regional Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting the Regional Agenda: A Critique of Posthegemonic Regionalism

Petersen

Schulz

2018

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“…Divergence between the US and Latin American states in the OAS has its roots in the 19th-century controversy about the Monroe Doctrine and the US support to the military dictatorships in the Southern Cone during the Cold War, but has been especially strong in the area of security and defense, while barely affecting the Inter-American Human Rights System until recently (Weiffen et al 2013;Herz 2011;Merke 2013). Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, which are members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba), have campaigned against Inter-American institutions in a more polarizing fashion than Mercosur's original full member states.…”

Section: Explaining Mercosur's Human Rights Governance Transfer: Demamentioning

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“…Democracy was mentioned from the beginning, and its promotion and consolidation were later added to the organization's 'essential purposes' by the second charter amendment (OAS 1985). While security and dispute settlement have been at the heart of OAS activities for decades, governance transfer has become the focal point of OAS activity, particularly with the democratization processes in Latin America in the 1990s (Herz 2011;Weiffen 2012).…”

Section: Governance Transfer By the Oasmentioning

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Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Börzel¹,

Hüllen

Lohaus³

2015

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This groundbreaking monograph series showcases cutting edge research on the transformation of governance in countries with weak state institutions. Combining theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholarship, it challenges the conventional governance discourse, which is biased towards modern developed nation-states. Instead, the series focuses on governance in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, including transnational and transregional dimensions.Located at the intersection of global governance and international relations, on the one hand, and comparative politics, area studies, international law, history, and development studies, on the other, this innovative series helps to challenge fundamental assumptions about governance in the social sciences.

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“…Over the decades, the OAS has evolved (Horwitz 2010; Herz 2011; Heine and Weiffen 2015; Perina 2015a). In the beginning, it was an organization that had as its key objective the conservation of peace in the region.…”

Section: Overlap Of Action: Oas and Unasurmentioning

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Costs and Benefits of Overlapping Regional Organizations in Latin America: The Case of the OAS and UNASUR

Nolte

2018

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This article investigates whether the overlapping of intergovernmental regional organizations in Latin America with regard to membership and mandate is harmful or beneficial to regional cooperation (with a special focus on mediation in domestic and international conflicts). The article begins by systematizing the discussion about the possible risks and potential benefits of overlapping regional organizations, and then outlines hypotheses that can be tested in concrete episodes of overlap of action. The article then analyzes nine episodes in which an overlap of action has occurred between two Latin American organizations, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). The results of the study are mixed. However, the effects of overlapping seem to be much less problematic than a large body of literature generally assumes.

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The Organization of American States (OAS)

Cited by 52 publications

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Setting the Regional Agenda: A Critique of Posthegemonic Regionalism

Setting the Regional Agenda: A Critique of Posthegemonic Regionalism

Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations

Costs and Benefits of Overlapping Regional Organizations in Latin America: The Case of the OAS and UNASUR

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