United States and the fight against narco-terrorism as a central foreign policy guideline on the link with Latin America:

the case of the model of cooperation with Colombia

Authors

  • Emilse Calderón Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. CONICET-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Rosario; Santa Fe; Argentina.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/cc.vi122.73

Keywords:

United States, Colombia, Latin America, drug trafficking, terrorism, militarization, Department of Defense

Abstract

Assuming that relations between the United States (US) and Latin America are strongly determined by the security agenda, this article proposes to examine the cooperative link that Washington established with Bogota based on the fight against drug trafficking and terrorism as a way of approach the type of relationship that proposes the north country for Latin America in the twenty-first century. Consequently, we try to support the observation of two trends, on the one hand, the strengthening of militarization of US influence and its driving by the Department of Defense and, on the other, the militarized US involvement in the armed conflict in Colombia by including it as part of the fight against international terrorism. The methodology used to prepare the writing is qualitative and applies to an investigative process based on primary and secondary sources.

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Author Biography

Emilse Calderón, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales. CONICET-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Rosario; Santa Fe; Argentina.

Doctora en Relaciones Internacionales, se desempeña como docente en la Facultad de Ciencia Política y
Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Becaria posdoctoral del Consejo
Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Ex becaria del Center for Hemispheric
Defense Studies. Autora de varios artículos académicos sobre Seguridad Internacional. 

Published

2020-06-01

How to Cite

Calderón, E. (2020). United States and the fight against narco-terrorism as a central foreign policy guideline on the link with Latin America: : the case of the model of cooperation with Colombia. CUPEA Cuadernos De Política Exterior Argentina, (122), 1–47. https://doi.org/10.35305/cc.vi122.73

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Artículos de investigación (sometidos a referato doble ciego)