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The OAS and the Summit of the Americas: Coexistence, or Integration of Forces for Multilateralism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Robin L. Rosenberg
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Abstract

Fifty years after the creation of the OAS, political power is not centralized in that organization but variously diffused throughout the interamerican system. Meanwhile, the Summit of the Americas process has slowly acquired its own institutionality outside the OAS, and is sometimes perceived as challenging the primacy of the ideal of the OAS as the principal institution of interamerican relations. Even with its own weaknesses, the Summit of the Americas has become the most important force for reform of the OAS. As the hemisphere prepares for the third full summit in Quebec, this essay assesses the relationship of these two institutions and their future prospects.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 79 - 101
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Copyright © University of Miami 2001

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