Title Regional mechanisms and international security in Latin America / edited by Olga Pellicer

Published Tokyo : United Nations University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 159 pages) Contents pt. I Concepts of International Security in Latin America and the Caribbean Since the End of the Cold War -- 1. Cooperative Hemispheric Security after the Cold War / Augusto Varas -- 2. Latin America and the New Challenges for a New International Security Regime in the Post-Cold War Period / Thomaz Guedes da Costa -- 3. New Trends in International Security in the Caribbean Basin / Andres Serbin -- pt. II Case-Study: The United Nations and the Organization of American States in Central America -- 4. United Nations and the Consolidation of Peace in Central America / Cristina Eguizabal -- pt. III Problem of Hemispheric Security: The OAS and Informal Mechanisms in Latin America -- 5. Regional Mechanisms for the Maintenance of Peace and Security in the Western Hemisphere / Margarita Dieguez -- 6. Rio Group and Regional Security in Latin America / Francisco Rojas Aravena -- 7. International Organizations and Human Security in Latin America / Morris J. Blachman / Donald J. Puchala -- pt. IV Global Trends in International Collective Security -- 8. New Trends in International Collective Security: Doubts and Uncertainties / Olga Pellicer / Joel Hernandez Summary A great diversity of points of view on international security, one of the most current subjects in the area of international relations, coexist in Latin America and the Caribbean. This region is immersed in an interesting debate in which reticence and enthusiasm coexist and confront themselves in order to enlarge the functions of regional mechanisms of security, or to evaluate experiences acquired either through UN action or recent tendencies of the Security Council. The center of debate is also found in the impossible to ignore role of the United States. Does the end of the Cold War modify the U.S. interests in Latin America in the field of security? Should existing mechanisms of collective security in the region be strengthened? Or should new alternatives be found? How far is a shared agenda for security, not only with the United States but also between the countries in Latin America itself, and among them and the Caribbean, possible or desirable? How acceptable are the new tendencies of the multilateral organizations in the field of security of the countries in the region? These are some of the questions that this book deals with from different points of view. It presents a new perspective on the contemporary debate over international security in Latin America and the Caribbean. -- Provided by publisher Notes Chiefly papers, translated from the Spanish, presented at a seminar, sponsored by the United Nations University and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, held in Cuernavaca, Mexico, May, 1994 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject United Nations -- Central America Organization of American States. SUBJECT Organization of American States fast United Nations fast Subject Security, International -- Congresses Peace. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization. Peace Politics and government Security, International Kollektive Sicherheit Kongress SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- -- Congresses Subject Central America Latin America Lateinamerika Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Guernavaca (1994) Form Electronic book Author United Nations University. Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México ISBN 0585206902 9780585206905

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