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Parliamentary Procedure
Values & Norms
International Relations
History
Compliments & Competitors
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Used when one believes a parliamentary error has been made:
What is a Point of Order
100
A clear THIS among the participating nations, having strong backing from the highest technical levels of government, is needed for international cooperation and seen as a strength of the OAS:
What is consensus
100
An existing challenge as the needs of some of THESE may sometimes be overlooked in the OAS:
What are smaller, less developed countries
100
In 1948 twenty-one nations from the Americas meet and sign THIS (thus creating the OAS) and THIS, an international human rights document that predates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is the Charter of the Organization of American States and the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man
100
A larger and complimentary organization to the OAS of which all voting member states are a part:
What is the United Nations (UN)
200
Responsible for running the meeting?
Who is the Chair
200
THIS founding initiative of the OAS is the abstention by a state from intervening in the affairs of other states or in its own internal disputes:
What is nonintervention
200
Establishing THIS throughout the hemisphere has been difficult because many Latin Americans distrust American multinational corporations, some of which have exploited Latin American landscape and citizens:
What is free trade
200
1978 - THIS is created to monitor compliance with the American Convention on Human Rights, which went into effect in 1979. IT functions not only as an adjudicatory body that hears and rules on cases of human rights violation, but also as an advisory body to member states:
What is The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
200
A voluntary association of independent nations and their dependencies linked by historical ties as parts of the former British Empire and cooperating on matters of mutual concern, of which 13 member states of the OAS are a part:
What is the Commonwealth of Nations
300
A formal proposal for action in a meeting of committee:
What is a motion
300
A founding principle of the OAS is to respect THIS; the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which an independent state is governed and from which all specific political powers are derived; the intentional independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign interference:
What is the sovereignty of states
300
A theory of international relations whereby states are viewed as the principle actors, interacting in a state of anarchy in only the interests of security and power:
What is realist
300
On September 11th, 2001 the 34 member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) made history by signing THIS:
What is Inter-American Democratic Charter
300
A trading block composed of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay:
What is Mercosur
400
Moderated or un-moderated, a time for delegates to discuss and make policy decisions:
What is a caucus
400
THIS founding initiative of the OAS is the determining by the people of the form their government shall have, without reference to the wishes of any other nation, especially by people of a territory or former colony:
What is self-determination
400
A theory of international relations whereby states are viewed as the principles actors and pursue many interests beyond security and power such as trade and investment, clean air, health, etc:
What is institutionalist
400
In 1959 the OAS creates THIS, an independent wing of the organization, which is tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Americas.
What is the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
400
An organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies, including OAS member states, who's main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy:
What is The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
500
Requiring one speaker for and one against, this allows changes the operative clauses of a resolution to be made:
What is a motion to introduce an amendment
500
The United States focus on defense against external rivals, ideologies, and challenges to its interests as opposed to Latin America's focus on economic development, political stability, and nonintervention in the affairs of neighbors are competing definitions of THIS:
What is security
500
A theory of international relations whereby individuals, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), business firms, and other non-state actors (NSAs) are viewed as the principle political actors:
What is liberal
500
These two events sandwich a recent "era of light", or time of progress for the OAS:
What are the end of the cold war and September 11th, 2001
500
An international cooperation organization is based on the idea of the social, political and economic integration of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and is associated with socialist and social democratic governments attempting regional economic integration based on a vision of social welfare, bartering and mutual economic aid:
What is the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA)