scholarly journals OAS and Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Maxwell Gill
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Member States ◽  
American States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union ◽  
Different Levels

The history of Canadian interaction with American states both unilaterally and through the Pan-American Union and Organization of American States is reviewed. The author argues that Canada has historically and continuously supported the OAS, and its member states, at a distance. Canada demonstrates a dichotomy of involvement; in few areas, Canada is deeply involved, and in many other areas, Canada is not at all involved. Canada's pattern of involvement appears to suggest a focus on non-reciprocal regional development as opposed to reciprocating involvement. This is dispite several calls from different levels of government that a broader, more involved level of involement would serve the OAS and its member states better.

Organization of American States

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 700-702
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Special Committee ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American Council ◽  
American States ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

The Inter-American Council of Jurists, created pursuant to Article 57 of the Charter of the Organization of American States, held its first meeting at Rio de Janeiro from May 22 to June 15, 1950 with nineteen states represented. Convoked by the Council of the Organization of American States, in accordance with the charter, its agenda of fourteen topics was prepared by the Pan American Union in cooperation with a special committee of the OAS Council.

United States Opposition to Canadian Membership in the Pan American Union: A Canadian View

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Anglin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
American States ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

After years of hesitation, Canada is now seriously considering full membership in the Organization of American States (OAS). The initiative for this shift in policy has come, not from officials in die Department of External Affairs, but principally from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and especially die Secretary of State for External Affairs, Howard Green. Both have returned within die past year from visits soudi of the Rio Grande critical of Canada's traditional neglect of its interests in Latin America.

Organization of American States

1954 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-414
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Working Capital ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Finance Committee ◽  
American States ◽  
The Status ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union

The following summary covers the activities of the Council of the Organization of American States from its 118th meeting on December 3, 1952, through its 129th meeting on April 1, 1953.On January 7, 1953, the Council approved the report of the Finance Committee on the budget for the fiscal year 1953–1954: $2,939,030 for the expenses of the Pan American Union, $219,524 for the Inter-American Defense Board, and $1,377 for repayment of advances from the Working Capital Fund. Of this amount, members would contribute $3, 159, 941; making allowance for income from miscellaneous sources, the budget was $225, 782 higher than for the pre-ceding fiscal year. The Council also approved the scale of assessments for the coming fiscal year; contributions by members ranged from 66 percent for the United States, 8.81 percent for Brazil and 7.42 percent for Argentina to 0.24 percent each for Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. The attention of member governments was drawn to a report submitted to the Council on March 4, 1953, by the Finance Committee on the status of members' contributions; the report revealed that six countries had paid in full their quotas for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1953, four countries had paid in part while eleven had as yet made no payment. Two members still owed part of their quotas for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1952 while four had made no payment on that quota. Three members still owed their quotas of the budgets of fiscal years before 1951–1952.

Organization of American States

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-297
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
American Institute ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
American States ◽  
Pan American ◽  
General Secretariat ◽  
American Union

In the period from June 4 through November 19, 1952, the Council of the Organization of American States held ten meetings. The General Secretariat was authorized to use supplementary credit to carry out resolution VIII of the Fourth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs which concerned strengthening internal security. The budgets of the Pan American Institute on Geography and History and the American Institute for the Protection of Childhood were examined by the Council. On two occasions, members were urged to pay their quotas of contributions for maintaining the Pan American Union and OAS specialized agencies. Among other decisions taken by the Council in relation to other inter-American organizations were approval of the reports on the Inter-American Telecommunications Conference, the Inter-American Radio Office, the Pan American Highway Congress, and the eighth assembly of the Inter-American Commission of Women. A report containing provisions on a draft revised constitution of the Pan American Sanitary Organization was approved by the Council following study by the Committee on Inter-American Organizations. It was further decided to establish cooperative relations with the International Road Federation.

Rhetoric and Reality:The Inter-American System's Second Century

1987 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Ronald Scheman
Keyword(s):  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Major Question ◽  
American States ◽  
Centennial Anniversary ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union ◽  
Better Than

In 1989 The Inter-American System will celebrate its centennial anniversary, tracing its lineage to the International Union of the American Republics formed at Secretary of State Blaine's Washington convocation in 1889. Over the years the mantle was passed, first, to the Pan American Union, and then to the system's present incumbent, the Organization of American States (OAS). It has been a century of unprecedented achievement and unremitting frustration, of great triumphs and repeated failures. Given the present state of the system, however, the major question is whether the system can endure, much less match the rhetoric and aspirations of its members, in its second century.International cooperation is a political decision in search of a framework. The Organization of American States is the attempt to express and enhance that cooperation among the nations of the Western Hemisphere. It is, and can be, no better than the underlying relationships among the nations.

Organization of American States

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 552-555
Keyword(s):  
Secretary General ◽  
Director General ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Finance Committee ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
American States ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union ◽  
Building Project ◽  
First Session

The Council of the Organization of American States, at a meeting on April 11, 1949, approved the report of the Finance Committee recommending procedures for financing the new building of the Pan American Union. It was agreed to instruct the Director-General to proceed immediately with the building project, inform the Carnegie Corporation of the action, and authorize the Secretary General to obtain loans of not more than $1,150,000. It was also decided to transmit the project of Statutes of the Inter-American Cultural Council to the member governments with the request that they submit observations which they deemed advisable before May 15, 1949, after which the Statutes would be put into effect on a provisional basis. After the first session of the Cultural Council, the Council would incorporate its recommendations in the statutes and formulate the definitive text.

Organization of American States

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-481
Keyword(s):  
Public Information ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
American States ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Information Program ◽  
Pan American ◽  
American Union ◽  
Made In

Meeting on April 4, 1952, the Council of the Organization of American States approved the report of the Committee on Inter-American Organizations and proposed standards for special agreements or arrangements and cooperative relations petween the Council and its organs and non-governmental organizations. The report on the publications and the information program of the Pan American Union submitted by the General Committee was approved; certain duties regarding this program which had been assigned the General Committee in January by the Council were declared no longer within its competence, in view of the changes made in the structure and functions of the committee by the Council in March. Thereupon, the Council established a Special Committee on Publications and Public Information of five members and delegated to it the duties connected with this program approved by the Council in January. Also at this meeting the Council requested the Inter-American Economic and Social Council to prepare the agenda and regulations of the special meeting of the Pan American Highway Congress, taking into account the first draft of the agenda and regulations drawn up by the organizing committee of the congress.

The Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense

1944 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-241
Author(s):  
Carl B. Spaeth ◽  
William Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
American Experience ◽  
American States ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Union

The war and the present preoccupation with post-war plans have brought about a general awareness of the fact that the Americas have been a testing ground for the orderly organization of relations among sovereign states, especially in the development of cooperative principles and techniques. The construction of a political organization within which these principles and techniques could be consolidated has not, however, characterized the American experience. The Pan American Union, for example, is expressly denied the right to consider political or controversial questions, and proposals for the creation of a “league” or “association” of American states has met with courteous but definite coolness.

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