The OAS in Peru: A Model for the Future?

Issue Date October 2001
Volume 12
Issue 4
Page Numbers 123-136
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In Peru in 2000, the OAS made an unprecedented diplomatic intervention in a member state. Could this be a model for the future?

About the Authors

Andrew F. Cooper

Andrew F. Cooper, professor of political science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, is coeditor of Enhancing Global Governance: Towards a New Diplomacy? (United Nations University Press). During the spring semester of 2000, he was a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

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Thomas Legler

Thomas Legler has taught Latin American politics at the University of Victoria and the University of Toronto. In April 2001, he observed the first-round presidential election in Peru.

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