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Power Dynamics and Regional Security in Latin America

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores the repercussions of world politics on Latin American regional security

  • Studies the emergence of new and overlapping regional organizations

  • Brings together contributions from Latin American, North American and European experts and introduces to an international audience several Latin American specialists whose work so far has mainly been published in Spanish or Portuguese

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Power Shifts and Regional Security Governance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Security Governance in Latin America

      • Roberto Dominguez
      Pages 53-76
    3. Role Theory and Geopolitical Thinking in South America

      • Leslie E. Wehner, Detlef Nolte
      Pages 101-120
  3. Regional Institutions and the Management of Security Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
    2. Regional Organizations, Conflict Resolution and Mediation in South America

      • Monica Herz, Maira Siman, Ana Clara Telles
      Pages 123-148
  4. Power Shifts and Security Priorities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
    2. The Zone of Violent Peace

      • David R. Mares
      Pages 225-245
    3. Counterterrorism Policies in Brazil: A Securitization Syndrome?

      • Marcial A.G. Suarez, Fernando L. Brancoli, Igor D.P. Acácio
      Pages 273-293
    4. Desecuritizing the ‘War on Drugs’

      • Carolina Cepeda Másmela, Arlene B. Tickner
      Pages 295-318
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 343-355

About this book

 

This volume explores the repercussions of a changing world order on regional security in Latin America. It examines how global and regional power shifts impact on the evolution of regional institutions as well as on state policies adopted in response to regional security challenges such as border conflicts, political instability, migration, drug-trafficking, organized crime, and terrorism.

Contributions to this volume analyze the topic from three angles: power dynamics and its effects on regional security governance; the contribution of regional institutions to the management of security challenges; and the impact of power dynamics on states’ shifting security priorities.

Written by specialists from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Europe, the chapters weave theory and case studies to provide a rich description of the impact of power and politics on regional security in Latin America. This book is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Latin American politics, regional cooperation, and war and conflict studies, as well as international security and international relations in general. 

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil

    Marcial A.G. Suarez

  • University of São Paulo , São Paulo, Brazil

    Rafael Duarte Villa

  • University of Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Brigitte Weiffen

About the editors

Marcial A. G. Suarez is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and former research fellow of the International Security Program, Belfer Center, Harvard University.

Rafael A. D. Villa is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and the Institute of International Relations at University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He also directs the International Relations Research Center at USP.

Brigitte Weiffen holds the Martius Chair for German and European Studies, a visiting professorship funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), at the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

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