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

Thomas Legler

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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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Further Reading

Volume 9, Issue 1

Self-Coups: Peru, Guatemala, and Russia

Volume 12, Issue 4

The OAS in Peru: Room for Improvement

Although the OAS helped, sudden public revelations of corruption in Peru were more important. 

Volume 17, Issue 4

A “Left Turn” in Latin America? An Unlikely Comeback in Peru

An unexpected winner emerged in Peru's close-fought presidential election. Alan García's earlier presidential term was calamitous at best, and yet he may now be the harbinger of a brighter future…