Historical Antecedents and Post-World War II Regionalism in the Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6411582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Long (0000-0002-5864-2941, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 214-253 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0043887119000194 |
| OpenAlex | W2997184186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 53 |
After World War II, the US-led international security order exhibited substantial regional variation. Explaining this variation has been central to the debate over why is there nonatoin Asia. But this debate overlooks the emergence of multilateral security arrangements between the United States and Latin American countries during the same critical juncture. These inter-American institutions are puzzling considering the three factors most commonly used to explain divergence betweennatoand Asia: burden-sharing, external threats, and collective identity. These conditions fail to explain contemporaneous emergence of inter-American security multilateralism. Although the postwar inter-American system has been characterized as the solidification of US dominance, at the time of its framing, Latin American leaders judged the inter-American system as their best bet for maintaining beneficial US involvement in the Western Hemisphere while reinforcing voice opportunities for weaker states and imposing institutional constraints on US unilateralism. Drawing on multinational archival research, the author advances a historical institutionalist account. Shared historical antecedents of regionalism shaped the range of choices for Latin American and US leaders regarding the desirability and nature of new regional institutions while facilitating institutional change through mechanisms of layering and conversion during this critical juncture
Bilateralism · Democracy · Development economics · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Latin Americans · Multilateralism · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regionalism (politics · Sociology · Unilateralism · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · International Relations in Latin America · Law
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Organizing Peace in the Americas
Republican internationalism
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Regionalism under test
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Compensatory Layering and the Birth of the Multipurpose Multilateral IGO in the Americas
Critical junctures in International Relations
Ghosts of Alignments Past
In Their Own Best Interest
After Victory
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism
Politics in Time
Drift and conversion
Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis
Critical junctures and institutional change
How Institutions Evolve
Explaining Institutional Change
The Invaded
Process Tracing
The Anglo-American Theme
An Emerging Synthesis? U.S.-Latin American Relations since the Second World War
The Impact of the Cold War on United States-Latin American Relations, 1945?1949
Closed Hemisphere and Open World? The Dispute Over Regional Security at the U.N. Conference, 1945
Institutional Layering
Defending the West
Cooperative hegemony
Soft Balancing in the Americas
Nazis and Good Neighbors
Conceptualizing Security Governance
Rethinking regionalism
Getting a Seat at the Table
After victory
The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights
Power, Institutions and the CSDP
Accidental Activists
Historical Institutionalism in International Relations
Multilateralism
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The Limits of Design
Informative Regress
The Causal Logic of Critical Junctures
Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics
Latin American Countries as Norm Protagonists of the Idea of International Human Rights
Regional powers and security
Why is there no Nato in Asia?’ revisited
The Study of Critical Junctures
Multilateralism
Latin America and the liberal international order
Setting the Regional Agenda
Beyond the Ideal
The Creation and Development of the Pan American Union
| Citations per year | 2.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |