Building The Americas - Rioux Michèle

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Résumé :
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.

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["REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND GOVERNANCE IN THE AMERICAS","Moulding economic governance in the Americas : US power and the new regional political economy","Structural reforms and regional integration in the Americas","From the debate on full dollarization to de-dollarization proposals in Latin America","ASYMMETRIES AND INEQUALITIES","Asymmetries in economic integration : major issues and policy options for the free trade area of the americas (FTAA)","Smaller economies in the negociations of the free trade area of the Americas : the interests of CARICOM states","The politics of tackling poverty and inequality in Latin America","ECONOMIC REGIONALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS","Investment and human rights","Beyond north south dichotomies : de-centering human rights in the Americas","The vulnerability of migrant workers in the Mercosur","Economic regionalism and social rights in the caribbean","IDENTITY, VALUES AND DIVERSITY","Mercosur elite's values and attitudes on integration in the hemisphere","Indentity and diversity : could a pan-american identity be constructed ?","Diversity and imagined communities in the Americas","BUILDING THE AMERICAS AND\/OR MULTILATERALISM ?","New Trends in the Americas","WTO Restraints on regionalism","Cancun : can can't ? Can do ?"]