Shaping the Regional Security Environment in Latin America. Perspectives from Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia

Abstract

These perspectives reflect the uncertainty, confusion, and frustration of the conference. Participants generally agreed that Colombia is a paradigm of the failing state that has enormous implications for the stability, democracy, prosperity, and peace of the Western Hemisphere. However, they did not agree that the interdependent regional community should join in a cooperative effort to help a neighbor in need. Moreover, they did not agree regarding the threat, nor on a unified ends-way-means strategy that would contribute directly to achieving desired hemispheric stability objectives. This disarray demonstrates a pressing need to pursue the debate, and to develop a moral position and structural framework from which individual countries can cooperate meaningfully and cooperatively against contemporary nontraditional and nonmilitary threats to basic security and sovereignty.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA416593

Entities

People

  • Henry M. Uribe
  • Luis Bitencourt
  • Pedro V. Delgado

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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  • Biomedical
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  • Agreements
  • Drug Trafficking
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • International Security
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Societies
  • Sociopolitics
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

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