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The attention placed on natural disaster has obtained an unusual relevance in the security agenda of Latin America. In great part, this is due to the reconfiguration of threats produced after the Cold War and the questioning of the security policies of the United States in the region. In this context, Washington has sought to install new themes of cooperation that will allow it to maintain its presence in the region. The aim of this article is to analyze the securitization of natural disasters as an issue of regional cooperation, comparing the initiatives undertaken at the hemispherical and regional level. To take on said study, this article proposes two models of approaches to disasters -- called physicalist and constructivist-- based on the premise that the first of these models has obtained prominence in the region, generating a conducive scenery for the militarization of these issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Pacific Alliance emerges as an economic integration initiative. It is expected to yield a combined GDP of more than 2 trillion dollars, which would be among the ten largest in the global economy. This integration offers an important opportunity to achieve a new positioning of its members. With the agreement, Colombia aspires to position itself as a regional leader in matters of security, through proposals for comprehensive actions in the face of new threats, particularly drug trafficking. The objective of this article is to examine Colombia's possibilities in complying with this positioning. To this end, we will study the premises of structural realism that maintain that the Pacific Alliance is an opportunity for Colombia to overcome its lag in integration and form strategic alliances with other international actors to contribute not only to the security of the members of the Alliance but also to that of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The power of criminal organizations has permeated the institutions with the so-called transnational organized crime, a phenomenon that finds support on economic openness, economic growth, technological development, and the flow of goods and people and transit of non-state agents that commercialize illicit products. These "companies of crime" represent a challenge for the State and are a visible threat to the border corridor between Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, as well as to the other countries of the region. In this document, the most outstanding factors that have contributed to the settlement of these criminal networks in the Triple Frontier are identified, for example, the population growth and geographical characteristics that hinder the control of the area, the scarce joint initiatives, the lack of control and global policies, and the hybrid nature of these organizations. The applied research method was qualitative, explanatory, analytical, and documentary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional organization, whose importance derives from its attempt to consolidate itself not only in this area as the most significant, but to perform counterweight functions to external powers which maintain geostrategic interests in the organization's area of influence. This aspiration arises, as will be demonstrated in the course of this work, from the political, economic, military, cultural and social wills of states like China and Russia, which intend, through their shared hegemony, to position themselves as decision-making agents in the international system, able to counteract the hegemonic power derived from the end of the Cold War (USA) and one of its main allies (EU), which act in the framework of NATO. Changes in the structure of the international system, in the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world, added to the redefinitions of safety and the expanding of the agenda that is derived from this concept, have also played an important role in shaping the sco as a new actor in the international system, in such a way that it is possible to verify the claims of Russia and China, which are developed in the framework of the sco, as will be discussed herein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper shows the results of a preliminary investigation that constitutes a diagnosis of the threats of drug trafficking in the Caribbean, on the basis of the so-called tendencies of the hemispheric and regional security. The natural condition of the Caribbean as a "transit zone" is characterized, along with historical and social aspects that give the region its proclivity for narco-trafficking. The geopolitics of the security in the region is also considered when evaluating the asymmetric condition of the relations between the United States and the Caribbean related to the security agenda; and when analyzing the common response of the Caribbean countries against the threats of drugs. Other problems like corruption, criminality, and the type of participation in the illegal economy, are also analyzed as part of the illicit practice framework of the drug dealing and its effects associated in the Caribbean region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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