‘Responsibility of the Great Ones’: How the Organization of American States and the United Nations Helped Resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-904
Author(s):  
Renata Keller
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cuban Missile Crisis ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Latin American Countries

AbstractThis article draws on an international assemblage of sources to recover the history of the involvement of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations (UN) in the Cuban missile crisis. It argues that, through the mechanisms of the OAS and the UN, Latin American citizens and officials helped shape the peaceful outcome of the crisis. This article challenges dismissive portrayals of both Latin American countries and multilateral organisations and, in so doing, joins the growing literature on how supposedly weak Latin American countries have used international organisations to influence world affairs.

U.S.-Panamanian Relations since 1941

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester D. Langley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
History Of ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Postwar Decade

Since 1941 United States relations with Latin American countries have fluctuated between the ofñcial cordiality of wartime cooperation, which provided the basis for the Organization of American States and the Rio Treaty, and deep-seated hostility and malaise, which erupted in the Nixon visit and in Castro's revolution, as well as in more recent unpleasant incidents. Latin American leaders have contended that the United States violated its wartime commitments, particularly in the economic sphere, by concentrating on the recovery of Europe in the first postwar decade and on Asian upheaval in the second. The history of U.S.-Panamanian relations since 1941 provides an excellent case study in order to test the validity of these contentions.

scholarly journals A HEGEMONIA DISSOCIADA E O PAPEL IDEOLÓGICO DA CEPAL NOS ANOS DE 1950 A 1960

2017 ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Rachel Aguiar Estevam do Carmo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Development Project ◽  
American States ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
America Latina

O presente artigo aborda a noção hegemonia dissociada como forma de entender o projeto ideológico da Comissão Econômica para América Latina (CEPAL) nos anos de 1950 a 1960. Entende-se que a CEPAL contribuiu para a construção do pensamento moderno na América Latina ao incentivar a formação de novos pesquisadores e na construção da Teoria do Subdesenvolvimento, corrente teórica que rompe com os escritos advindos das Nações Unidas e que procura explicar a realidade latino-americana a partir de dentro, focando na saída da condição subdesenvolvida por meio da ampliação e construção do parque industrial. Utilizamos os escritos gramscianos para compreender esse momento hegemônico de reorganização dos Estados latino-americanos em que a CEPAL serviu para dar suporte no projeto de desenvolvimento econômico voltado para a supressão da condição de subdesenvolvimento e também como manifestação que se dissocia dos preceitos das Nações Unidas da qual a CEPAL estava subordinada teoricamente. Nesse sentido, o termo hegemonia dissociada ajuda a realocar o papel da CEPAL nos anos de 1950 e 1960 como a luz capaz de levar a modernidade para a periferia do capitalismo.Palavras-chave: Hegemonia Dissociada; CEPAL; Desenvolvimento Econômico. THE DISSOCIATED HEGEMONY AND THE IDEOLOGICAL ROLE OF CEPAL IN THE YEARS 1950 TO 1960AbstractThis article addresses the concept of dissociated hegemony as un way of understanding the ideological project of the Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) in the years 1950 to 1960. It is understood that CEPAL contributed to the construction of modern thinking in Latin America by encouraging formation of new researchers and the construction of the Theory of Underdevelopment, a theoretical current that breaks with the writings of the United Nations and seeks to explain the Latin American reality from within focusing on the way out of the underdeveloped condition through the expansion and construction of the industrial park. We use the writings of Gramsci to understand this hegemonic moment of reorganization of the Latin American States in which CEPAL served to support the economic development project aimed at suppressing the condition of underdevelopment and also as a manifestation that dissociates itself from the United Nations because of team cepalino to have been subordinate theoretically. In this sense, the term dissociated hegemony helps to reallocate the role of CEPAL in the 1950s and 1960s as the light that capable of bringing modernity to the periphery of capitalism.Keywords: Dissociated Hegemony; CEPAL; Economic Development.

scholarly journals Organization of American States

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-611
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
The United Nations

The Tenth Inter-American Conference was held in Caracas, Venezuela, from March 1 through 28, 1954, under the presidency of Dr. Aureliano Otanez, Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Twenty American states sent delegations to the Conference1 which was also attended by observers from inter-American agencies and the United Nations and its specialized agencies. It was decided that the Eleventh Inter-American Conference would be held in Quito, Ecuador (LXIV).

Organization of American States

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-337
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
The Future ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Future 2

On January 6, 1950 the Council again turned to the consideration of the dispute between Haiti and the Dominican Republic and resolved to 1) convoke the Organ of Consultation at a time and place to be determined in the future, 2) constitute. itself provisionally as the Organ of Consultation, and 3) appoint a committee to conduct an on-the-spot investigation of the facts of the situation and their antecedents. The Council then communicated its decisions on the matter to the United Nations Security Council.

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