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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967535003321

Autore

Sanchez Sanchez Rafael A

Titolo

The politics of Central American integration / / Rafael A. Sanchez Sanchez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-84345-7

1-281-90046-X

9786611900465

0-203-88274-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Latin American studies

Disciplina

320.972

337.1/728

Soggetti

Political science - Central America

Central America Economic integration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Intergovernmentalism in International Theory of Integration; 2 States' Preferences on Integration: The Cases of Costa Rica and El Salvador; 3 The Establishing of the Central American Common Market (CACM); 4 Growth and Instability in the CACM; 5 War and Disintegration in the CACM in the 1980s; 6 Rebuilding Integration in the 1990s; 7 Restructuring the CACM in the 1990s: The Move towards Open Regionalism; 8 Concluding Chapter; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since its inception in the 1960s to the regional negotiations in the 1990s and onwards, Central American integration has been a process characterized by both dramatic advances and setbacks. This book provides a theoretical explanation of this ebb and flow, examining different stages including the military conflicts of the 1980s, the subsequent Esquipulas peace process, and the relaunch of integration during the 1990s under the System of Central American Integration (SICA).Sánchez Sánchez's analysis focuses on the policies and preferences of the larger states of the region, Costa Rica