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9780415718691 English 0415718694 This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of the Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. It identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America s comparative and international politics has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War, the return of democracy and the re-legitimization and re-armament of the military against the background of low-level uses of force short of war. Latin America s security issues have become an important topic in international relations and Latin American studies. The region has undergone significant change during the past twenty years and its experience informs scholarly debates about war, regional peace, arms races, terrorism, peacekeeping operations, and even nuclear arms potential. While the threat of the use of force is still part of the equation, security issues are broader. Security studies encompasses dangers that range from environmental degradation, pandemics, cybersecurity, organized crime to the more traditional security concerns of direct violence, such as terrorism and inter-state armed conflict. The volume comprises six parts. The first reviews the historical roots of the study of Latin American security; the second looks at a wide variety of theoretical positions, from the historically dominant traditions to powerful critical voices since the 1980s; the third focuses on different conceptions of security, such as human security or homeland security. In the fourth section, the volume addresses a number of contemporary security topics, including terrorism as well as citizen security, organized crime and other topical issues. The fifth section of the Handbook analyses specific regional security issues and institutions, before turning, in the sixth section, to the pattern of security challenges facing the region and their policy implications. With a focus on contemporary challenges and the failures of regional institutions to eliminate the threat of the use of force among Latin Americans, this Handbook will be of great interest to students of Latin American politics, security studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations in general. "
9780415718691 English 0415718694 This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of the Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. It identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America s comparative and international politics has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War, the return of democracy and the re-legitimization and re-armament of the military against the background of low-level uses of force short of war. Latin America s security issues have become an important topic in international relations and Latin American studies. The region has undergone significant change during the past twenty years and its experience informs scholarly debates about war, regional peace, arms races, terrorism, peacekeeping operations, and even nuclear arms potential. While the threat of the use of force is still part of the equation, security issues are broader. Security studies encompasses dangers that range from environmental degradation, pandemics, cybersecurity, organized crime to the more traditional security concerns of direct violence, such as terrorism and inter-state armed conflict. The volume comprises six parts. The first reviews the historical roots of the study of Latin American security; the second looks at a wide variety of theoretical positions, from the historically dominant traditions to powerful critical voices since the 1980s; the third focuses on different conceptions of security, such as human security or homeland security. In the fourth section, the volume addresses a number of contemporary security topics, including terrorism as well as citizen security, organized crime and other topical issues. The fifth section of the Handbook analyses specific regional security issues and institutions, before turning, in the sixth section, to the pattern of security challenges facing the region and their policy implications. With a focus on contemporary challenges and the failures of regional institutions to eliminate the threat of the use of force among Latin Americans, this Handbook will be of great interest to students of Latin American politics, security studies, war and conflict studies and International Relations in general. "