Strategic Balance and Confidence Building Measures in the Americas

AvJoseph S. Tulchin,Francisco Rojas Aravena

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

Examining Latin American security in the post-Cold War era, policymakers and analysts from across the Americas assess the security threats and agendas of different subregions and evaluate the potential for wider hemispheric cooperation.With the decline in Cold War tensions and external interference, along with a near-consensus favoring democracy and free market economics, Latin America faces an unusual opportunity to shape its own regional strategic agenda. Traditional threats such as border disputes must be addressed even while growing transnational problems challenge the capacities of young democracies. With increasing globalization, national security is inseparable from regional security and depends on the establishment of effective mechanisms for cooperation.The contributors assess both the theoretical and empirical background of cooperation in the Americas, and argue that different subregions--such as the Caribbean Basin, the Andean nations, and the Southern Cone--approach cooperation from different strategic perspectives and traditions. They show that building hemispheric security requires pragmatic attention to local complexities and a concerted effort to emphasize common interests, including the defense of democracy, economic stability, citizens' security, and environmental protection.The book asserts that the creation of a framework for regional cooperation will depend on the establishment at the local level of what it calls ConfidenceBuilding Measures (CBMs). It evaluates the potential roles of such international organizations as the Organization of American States and the Inter-American Defense Board, and studies the changing regional policies of the United States for their effectiveness and impact on regional security.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-10-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:449 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9780804736077

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Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Joseph S. Tulchin is Director of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C. He is the author of more than twenty books, most recently The Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America. Francisco Rojas Aravena is Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Santiago, Chile. His most recent publication (as co-editor) isChile-Mercosur: A Strategic Alliance.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Opening Comments: 1. The advancement of confidence in the Western Hemisphere John Holum; 2. Address to the First Regional Conference on confidence building measures and security Pablo Cabrera Gaete; 3. Revitalization of the inter-American system and security in the Western Hemisphere Ricardo Mario Rodr'guez; Part II. Regional Perspectives on Strategic Balance and Confidence Building Measures: 1. The question of confidence building measures in the Andean sub region Fernando Bustamante; 2. A Chilean perspective on strategic balance in the southern cone Miguel Navarro Meza; 3. Strategic balance, Brazil, and Western Hemispheric security Thomaz Navarro Costa; 4. A United States view of strategic balance in the Americas John A. Cope; 5. The Caribbean in a new strategic environment Ivelaw Griffith; 6. Strategic balance and regional security in the southern cone Marcela Donadio and Luis Tibiletti; 7. Confidence building measures and strategic balance: a step toward expansion and stability Francisco Rojas Aravena; 8. Strategic balance and confidence building measures in Latin America: the historical utility of an ambiguous concept David R. Mares; 9. A Latin American view of the Inter-American defense board and strategic equilibrium in Latin America Vicente Casales; 10. Strategic balance and sustainable development in the Americas: two fostering institutions Kenneth N. Haynes.