Presentaci

1
Latin American Leadership in Hemispheric Security

• Latin America Does it have a common approach?
• Security Is there a common perception?
• Leadership Objective Conditions
• Acceptance Desire to Volunteer
• Conclusions

2
Latin America

• Cultural Community not homogenous.
• Common Values.
• Political Diversity.
• Diverse Security Situations.
• Different evaluation of threats and risks.
• Does not act with Political Unity.
• Sub-regions A Reality (Politico-Economic and,
  in certain cases, of Security?)
• South American Union A Desire
  (Political (Economic)

3
Security

• Dimension of the Concept
• Traditional Threats
• Non-Traditional Threats
• Risks and other problems
• Difficulty of concensus.
• Suspicion of securitizing risks.
• Fear of interventions and outside influence.
• Lack of confidence due to Asymmetries.
• Imbalance of military power. Different Roles of
  Armed Forces/Security Forces.
• A Crisis harmonizes definitions of security.

• Poverty
• Sickness
• Democratic Instability

4
Leadership

• Of a country, or of a group of countries.
• Are there conditions?Cline Pp (CEM) x (SW)
• World wide examples.
• Some Characteristics
• Capacity for aciton Resources to sustain
  action.
• Credibility Confidence betweeen peers.
• Political Will to lead (Polítical Support).
• Acceptance of cost Responsibility.
• Competent and Respected Leaders.
• Take Opportunities Strategic Vision.
• Access to the World Wide Community Respect.
• Peace Difficult to accept the need forsecurity
  leadership.
• Crisis and Fear Easier to accept leadership.

5
Conclusions

• Are there countries with capacity/desire?
• There are not many conditions which stimluate
  security leadership.
• Are there countries which have a desire to lead
  but lack capacity?
• In lieu of leadership, alternatives appear such
  as the articulation of compromises and
  cooperation.

6
Conclusions

• Cooperation is easier in the Sub-region where
  there is less resistance to leadership.
  Cooperation leads to recognition of asymmetries
  and respect for the dignity, and sovereignty of
  neighboring countries.
• Appearance of a crisis accelerates the process.
• Cooperative Action Early Warning Stand By
  Forces and PKO, are currently the easiest to
  perform. There are other political-military
  options.