Regimes of Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Power, Interests, and Intellectual Traditions Export

@article{citeulike:1133228, abstract = {The 1994 Summit of the Americas marked a high point in hemispherism-our label for the active attempt by the nations of the Western Hemisphere to form regimes of cooperation with one another. To explain why hemispherism has not been a more powerful trend in the last 200 years, structural, interest, and cultural variables are relevant but insufficient factors. An important and often overlooked obstacle to hemispherism has beencontrarian ideas. Specifically, constellations of intellectual traditions that question the value of hemispheric cooperation have dampened both the demand for and supply of such regimes. Only when these antihemispheric intellectual traditions were in retreat-the late nineteenth century, the mid twentieth century, and the early 1990s-has hemispherism flourished. We posit three mechanisms through which intellectual traditions can decline, thus generating amodified cognitivist argument that can supplement power-based and interest-based explanations of regime formation and robustness.}, author = {Corrales, Javier and Feinberg, Richard E.}, citeulike-article-id = {1133228}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0020-8833.00109}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0020-8833.00109}, doi = {10.1111/0020-8833.00109}, journal = {International Studies Quarterly}, keywords = {hirst, latin\_america}, number = {1}, pages = {1--36}, posted-at = {2007-03-01 05:44:32}, priority = {0}, title = {Regimes of Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Power, Interests, and Intellectual Traditions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0020-8833.00109}, volume = {43}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1133228 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1133228 N2 - The 1994 Summit of the Americas marked a high point in hemispherism-our label for the active attempt by the nations of the Western Hemisphere to form regimes of cooperation with one another. To explain why hemispherism has not been a more powerful trend in the last 200 years, structural, interest, and cultural variables are relevant but insufficient factors. An important and often overlooked obstacle to hemispherism has beencontrarian ideas. Specifically, constellations of intellectual traditions that question the value of hemispheric cooperation have dampened both the demand for and supply of such regimes. Only when these antihemispheric intellectual traditions were in retreat-the late nineteenth century, the mid twentieth century, and the early 1990s-has hemispherism flourished. We posit three mechanisms through which intellectual traditions can decline, thus generating amodified cognitivist argument that can supplement power-based and interest-based explanations of regime formation and robustness. IS - 1 JF - International Studies Quarterly EP - 36 TI - Regimes of Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Power, Interests, and Intellectual Traditions VL - 43 SP - 1 KW - hirst KW - latin_america AU - Corrales, Javier AU - Feinberg, Richard PY - 1999/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0020-8833.00109 ER -