Onward Westward

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measures among historical rivals in the Southern Cone and peacekeeping operations in Central America and the Caribbean. Terms such as multilateralism, regionalism, consensus, and convergence pepper descriptions of hemispheric relations throughout the volumes reviewed here. Most of these volumes must have been prompted in part by a shared belief in the positive potential of these changes.

Regionalism, moreover, means more than just free trade or military confidence-building measures; it refers to the hemispherewide convergence of values promoted by the development of multilateral institutions, the development of a common community. The Summit of the Americas process best exemplifies this new regionalist impulse. The three summits over less than ten years (Miami 1994, Santiago 1998, Quebec 2001) have solidified common principles and priorities in areas such as strengthening democracy, education, and sustainable development; promoting free trade and the development of science ...

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are useful to comparativists interested in the political economy of regionalism. The remaining four volumes focus on cooperation regarding security relations. A key theme of these is that the security situation in Latin America has become much more complex and difficult to manage since the end of the Cold War.

The best overview of the range of these complexities is International Security and Democracy. Its contributors argue not only that traditional threats to security persist in the region, but that democratization itself and the growth of nontraditional threats have created new forms of insecurity for the region's nation-states. The persistence of traditional threats was ...

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