Publication

This monograph examines the deteriorating security situation in the Latin American region, which has enormous implications for the well-being of the Western hemisphere. The author identifies the political-strategic challenge of effective sovereignty and security, with a focus on non-traditional threats. He recommends that leaders rethink the problem of non-traditional threats and develop conceptual and strategic political multilateral responses, which go beyond the conventional threat conception. He concludes with the argument that a broadened concept of threat is important to national security and sovereignty in order to overcome the current impasse. He stresses that if the US and the other countries in the hemisphere ignore what is happening in Latin America, the expansion of terrorism, "lawless areas", and general instability could easily destroy the democracy, free market economies, and prosperity that has been achieved. That would profoundly affect the health of the US economy and the concomitant power to act in the global security arena.