Brasil y Colombia: Líderes de un nuevo modelo de seguridad cooperativa en América Latina
This article aims to reflect upon the prospects Brazil and Colombia would have to become the leaders of a new cooperative security model to be established in Latin America. The end of the Cold War has opened to the subcontinent new perspectives related to unthinkable possibilities of cooperation and...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores
2012
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| Online Access: | http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4222074 |
| Source: | Revista Via Iuris, ISSN 1909-5759, Nº. 12, 2012, pags. 121-136 |
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This article aims to reflect upon the prospects Brazil
and Colombia would have to become the leaders of
a new cooperative security model to be established
in Latin America. The end of the Cold War has opened
to the subcontinent new perspectives related to
unthinkable possibilities of cooperation and integration.
Nonetheless, the challenges brought up by new
and serious security regional problems needed to be
solved. A context marked by the US getting deeply involved
in Middle East affairs are the ideal ground for
integration and cooperative proposals by which Brazil
try to convince its neighbors, and specially Colombia,
to build up a new security structure in Latin America.
The author shall have as a starting point the theoretical
basis of �co-operative hegemony� proposed by
Pedersen, a paradigm for analyzing the process by
which states having the goal for obtaining a regional
leadership using integration dynamics, achieve the
main aim of more relative power (�advantages of
scale�) in the economics, commercial and common
security fields, just to mention some of the most significant.
This academic work focuses on the question
how Brazil,-after decades of lack of interest or even
mistrust towards Colombia-,aims to have a close relationship
with the Andean country. Especially the
defense and security aspects are seen as priorities, in
a prevention perspective, in order to project Brazil´s
regional power. On the other hand, the author shall
analyze how this aim could be of advantage for the
Andean country by achieving its goals regarding a so
long dreamed stability in the regional context. |
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