Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-240) and index.

"Impatient with globalist assumptions concerning the nature of the current international system, authors convincingly argue that recent developments have created 'a particularly favorable environment for the establishment of a new regional system of the Americas;' less persuasively predict an eventual 'true community of American nations.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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