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The promise of precommitment in democracy and human rights : the hopeful, forgotten failure of the Larreta Doctrine

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Long, Tom (Thomas Stephen) and Friedman, Max Paul (2020) The promise of precommitment in democracy and human rights : the hopeful, forgotten failure of the Larreta Doctrine. Perspectives on Politics, 18 (4). pp. 1088-1103. doi:10.1017/S1537592719002676 ISSN 1537-5927.

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Abstract

Although international precommitment regimes offer a tool to escape the apparent contradiction between sovereignty and the international protection of democracy and human rights, they raise theoretical and practical questions. This article draws on multinational archival research to explore an overlooked historical episode and suggest new thinking regarding the logjams over sovereignty, incapacity of global decision making, and humanitarian imperialism. In 1945 and 1946, the American states engaged in a debate over the Larreta Doctrine, a Uruguayan proposal about the parallelism between democracy and human rights, and the regional rights and duties to safeguard these values. In the ensuing debate, the Uruguayan foreign minister elaborated a tripartite precommitment mechanism to create a web of national commitments to democratic governance and the domestic protection of human rights, to establish a regional insurance policy against failures to maintain those commitments, and to obligate the great power and neighboring states to precommit to working through the regional system instead of unilaterally. As a proposal that emerged from a weak state—and garnered support from states that faced internal and external threats to democracy and rights—the Larreta Doctrine offers insights on the central tension between state sovereignty and international commitments.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General)
J Political Science > JC Political theory
J Political Science > JL Political institutions (America except United States)
J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Latin America -- Foreign relations, Latin America -- Politics and government, Human rights -- Latin America, Sovereignty, Intervention (Federal government) , Uruguay -- Foreign relations -- 1904-1973, Rodríguez Larreta, Eduardo,1888-1973, Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes
Journal or Publication Title: Perspectives on Politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 1537-5927
Official Date: 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
2020Published
5 September 2019Available
12 June 2019Accepted
Volume: 18
Number: 4
Page Range: pp. 1088-1103
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592719002676
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This article has been published in a revised form in Perspectives on Politics http://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592719002676. 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. © American Political Science Association 2019.
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders: American Political Science Association
Date of first compliant deposit: 18 June 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 26 June 2019
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDBritish Academyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000286
UNSPECIFIEDLeverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
UNSPECIFIEDTruman Library Institutehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005698
UNSPECIFIEDBritish Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000308
UNSPECIFIEDAmerican University (Washington, D.C.).‏ College of Arts and Sciences‏http://viaf.org/viaf/263715781
UNSPECIFIEDAlexander von Humboldt-Stiftunghttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005156
UNSPECIFIEDFreie Universität Berlinhttp://viaf.org/viaf/151464000
UNSPECIFIEDUnited States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney‏http://viaf.org/viaf/12146095313900372440
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