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The OAS Democratic Solidarity Paradigm: Questions of Collective and National Leadership

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andrew F. Cooper  and
Thomas Legler
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Abstract

This article examines the prospects for an interamerican “paradigm of democratic solidarity.” Although the region has seen genuine progress in the promotion and defense of democracy, a significant deficit in collective and national leadership hinders the consolidation of hemispheric prodemocracy activism. As illustrated by a number of recent cases, including the controversy over Peru's May 2000 election, these impediments are not only situational but structural. This article concludes with a discussion of ways to move beyond these problems and to buttress the democratic solidarity doctrine.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Spring 2001 , pp. 103 - 126
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Copyright © University of Miami 2001

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