Organization of American States (OAS)
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Documents
Throughout the database, users may notice select titles annotated with a star icon.
This star denotes titles that are part of the Editor's Picks. These titles were identified by Rocio Suarez, Library and Archives Specialist at the Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States, as representing some of the most informative and valuable documents of the organization, as well as the most consulted. The titles identified as part of the Editor's Picks encompass hundreds of thousands of pages of material.
Click the star icon to learn more about each Editor's Pick and their importance to the OAS.
Within this tab, users will find documents published by the Organization of American States. Many of these were scanned directly from copies held in the Columbus Memorial Library, the institutional memory of the Organization of American States and the Inter-American System.
Users are able to Browse these titles by Title, Author, Date, and Classification.
- Classification refers to the organizational system for OAS publications devised in the Classification Manual for the OAS Official Records Series. Users are able to browse titles by their Series classification.
Key titles include:
- Annual Report of the Secretary General (1935-2005)
- Charter of the Organization of American States, as Amended by the Protocol of Buenos Aires in 1967
- Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, Signed at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Continental Peace and Security, Rio de Janeiro (1965)
Within this subcollection, users will find titles about the OAS, titles dating from its origins as the Pan-American Union, and works on issues within the Inter-American system.
Some titles you may want to check out include:
- Donald Marquand Dozer. Are We Good Neighbors: Three Decades of Inter-American Relations, 1930-1960 (1959).
- Bulletin of the Pan American Union (1893-1948).
- Marshall B. Lloyd. Organization of American States: Law, Policy, and Governance in the Western Hemisphere (2023).
- J. Lloyd Mecham. United States and Inter-American Security, 1889-1960 (1961).
Scholarly Articles
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Bibliography
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