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Long, Tom (Thomas Stephen) (2020) Historical antecedents and Post-WWII regionalism in the Americas. World Politics, 72 (2). pp. 214-253. doi:10.1017/S0043887119000194 ISSN 0043-8871.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887119000194
Abstract
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 no nato in 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 between nato and 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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Regionalism (International organization), World politics -- 20th century, International relations, Intergovernmental cooperation, International agencies -- History, National security -- Europe -- History -- 20th century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | World Politics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0043-8871 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 72 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 214-253 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0043887119000194 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been published in a revised form in World Politics https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887119000194 This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Trustees of Princeton University 2020 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 December 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 December 2019 | ||||||||
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