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Building the Americas

Puce noire Bruylant, 2007 , Michèle Rioux

Bringing together, in a common and single space, a continent characterized by great diversity and significant asymmetries, is not an easy task. The Americas are still composed of different spaces, countries, cultures and societies not yet sharing a common sense of destiny. But if there is no single “America”, a new regionalism has emerged and represents a roadmap to a new governance framework implying the deepening of liberal economic and institutional reforms. Resistance and obstacles remain numerous and perhaps the biggest challenge is to address the complex issues related to North-South integration within the hemisphere and to the hegemonic position of the United States. If the process of “Building the Americas” can be depicted as an attempt to define governance in an era of market-led integration, the paradox is that its eventual success depends on its capacity to transcend the immediate commercial and trade orientations and to create a true Community of Democracies. In other words, in order to succeed, the process of “Building the Americas” must now go beyond market led integration, beyond US hegemonic governance, and, foremost, it must recognize and embrace the diversity of cultures, values and identities in the hemisphere.

Michèle Rioux (dir.), Building the Americas., Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2007, 326 pages.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Building the Americas : Governing Market-led Regional Integration, Michèle Rioux

PART 1 : REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND GOVERNANCE IN THE AMERICAS

 Chapter I . – Moulding Economic Governance in the Americas : US
Power and the New Regional Political Economy,
Nicola Phillips
 Chapter II . – Structural reforms and regional integration in the
Americas,
Ninfa Fuentes and Jorge A. Schiavon
 Chapter III . – From the debate on full dollarization to de-dollarization
proposals in Latin America,
Carlos Quenan and Edgardo Torija Zane

PART 2 : ASYMMETRIES AND INEQUALITIES

 Chapter IV . – Asymmetries in Economic Integration : Major Issues
and Policy Options for the Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA),
Vivianne Ventura-Dias
 Chapter V . – Smaller economies in the negotiations of the free
trade area of the Americas : the interests of CARICOM states,
Ramesh Chaitoo
 Chapter VI . – The Politics of Tackling Poverty and Inequality in
Latin America,
Judith Teichman

PART 3 : ECONOMIC REGIONALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS

 Chapter VII . – Investment and Human Rights,
Rodney Neufeld
 Chapter VIII . – Beyond North South Dichotomies : De-centering
Human Rights in the Americas,
Sérgio Costa
 Chapter IX . – The Vulnerability of Migrant Workers in the
Mercosur,
Juliana Silva Araujo Silva
 Chapter X . – Economic Regionalism and Social Rights in the
Caribbean,
Lydia Barfleur-Lancrerot

PART 4 : IDENTITY, VALUES AND DIVERSITY

 Chapter XI . – Mercosur elite’s values and attitudes on integration
in the Hemisphere,
José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque
 Chapter XII . – Identity and Diversity : Could a Pan-American identity
be constructed ?
Jorge Larrain
 Chapter XIII . – Diversity and Imagined Communities in the Americas,
Amaryll Chanady

PART 5 : BUILDING THE AMERICAS AND/OR MULTILATERALISM ?

 Chapter XIV . – New Trends in the Americas,
Jane L. Barber Thery
 Chapter XV . – WTO Restraints on Regionalism,
Maureen Irish - Chapter XVI . – Cancun : Can can’t ? Can do ?
Sylvia Ostry

Ouvrage recensé dans :

 Études internationales, vol. 39, no 4, 2008, pp. 660-662. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ei/2008/v39/n4/029618ar.pdf

 Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, vol. 33, no 66, 2008. pp. 199-200.
http://w3.ipealt.univ-tlse2.fr/cedocal/revues/canadian/caj66.htm

 Politique et Sociétés, vol. 28, no 3, 2009, pp. 230-233.
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ps/2009/v28/n3/039016ar.html?vue=resume

 Région et développement, no 29, 2009.
http://region-developpement.univ-tln.fr/fr/pdf/R29/CR-Rioux.pdf

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