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The underpinnings of global governance since the end of the Second World War have been imbued with the Western norms of order. Today, the acceptability of those norms is encountering challenges rendering parts of global governance dysfunctional, at times layering onto it, at other times encircling it, disputing it, complicating it, but not overthrowing it. Contested conceptions may become a central feature of global governance opening a window for necessary changes. This article evinces the distinctly Latin American way of understanding global governance. The concept of autonomy, pragmatic and in permanent construction as it might, is actually one of the deepest and most meaningful aspects of self-determination. Dissatisfaction with the status quo ante was translated into a struggle for voice and autonomy, accommodation, or a search for opportunities to trim and reshape rules and reduce pressure for the policies governments wished to evade or delay rather than a big push to rewrite rules and establish altogether new foundations for global governance. This paper address the way Latin American countries conceptualized and viewed the need for autonomy, how that norm translated into region building and a legal approach to multilateralism, as preferred sites on the road to global governance.
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Jaguaribe established two conditions for autonomous development: national viability and international permissibility. National viability of a country involves the minimum human and natural resources needed to overcome dependency, while international permissibility is related to the possibility of neutralizing the coercive action of third countries (Jaguaribe 1969).
LAFTA was the first regional integration project including Latin American countries. It was later revamped in the Latin American Integration Area (LAIA) in 1970.
Venezuela (1998), Brazil (2002), Argentina (2003), Uruguay (2004), Bolivia (2005), Ecuador (2006), Paraguay (2008) and Peru (2011).
In 1902, Britain, Germany and Italy bombed the coast of Venezuela to demand the payment of debt. Against this, Luis María Drago, Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 1902 to July 1903, prepared a note protesting the events in Venezuela, dated 29 December 1902 and addressed to the Argentine minister Ambassador ?? in Washington, Martin Garcia Merou to be submitted to the US government. The note included what later became known as the “Drago Doctrine”.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay y Venezuela.
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay y Venezuela.
Brazil, Chile and Cuba were among the first signatories of the Agreement in 1947.
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Deciancio, M., Tussie, D. Globalizing Global Governance: Peripheral Thoughts from Latin America. Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci. 13, 29–44 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-019-00263-5
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