Historical Antecedents and Post-World War II Regionalism in the Americas
@article{Long2020HistoricalAA, title={Historical Antecedents and Post-World War II Regionalism in the Americas}, author={Tom Long}, journal={World Politics}, year={2020}, volume={72}, pages={214-253} }
After World War II, the US-led international security order exhibited substantial regional variation. Explaining this variation has been central to the debate over why is there no nato in Asia. But this debate overlooks the emergence of multilateral security arrangements between the United States and Latin American countries during the same critical juncture. These inter-American institutions are puzzling considering the three factors most commonly used to explain divergence between nato and…
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