Some authors characterize Latin America as a region of ‘Permanent
Peace’. Indeed, the low incidence of interstate conflict corroborates
this perception. Yet, inter-state rivalry, domestic violence and
transnational crime abound in this part of the world, prompting others
to name it a ‘Violent Peace’.
What lessons can we take from the ambivalent security environment in Latin America and are they transferrable?
The
objective of this course is to look at the evolution of the security
challenges in Latin America in order to understand the complexity of its
development since the end of the Cold War. The endurance of both peace
and conflict in the region offer us more general insights into the
overlap and differences between traditional and non-traditional threats,
the interplay of structures, agents and institutions and, ultimately,
the dialectic between domestic violence and war in our times.
Classes, reading material and assignments in English only. Extra reading material can be provided in Spanish and Portuguese.
- Kursleiter*in: Dr. Isabella Duarte Franchini