Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityThe inter-American regional system, the oldest functioning international organization had its early beginnings in 1826 with the Bolivarian Congress, gained its majority with the First, International Conference of American States in 1890, and matured into the present highly organized mechanism for international peace and progress with the Charter of the Organization of American States in 1948. The original union of American republics has developed gradually and evoked through this evolution principles and practices predicated on good faith, mutual understanding, and cooperative spirit. [TRUNCATED
