Latin American Security Governance in the Global Context

This doctoral research topic will explore the issue of regional security governance of Latin America in the global context. Latin America is often referred to as the region with the lowest incidence of interstate violent conflict. The region, however, faces a large and complex number of traditional and non-traditional security challenges that affect the management of domestic and regional security, conditions instances of cooperation and policy coordination between states, and constrains conditions of action of regional structures within wider global structures. The changing nature, configuration, and dynamics of threats in the region has led to diverse forms of interaction between the regional security governance architecture and the global one.

This research project is therefore theoretically and empirically concerned with the structure of security governance at the regional and global levels, the dynamics of cooperation and competition within and between these levels, the impact of the new security governance configuration in the region on the global level, as well as the impact of the dominant global security governance norms and discourses on the regional level. As such, a multilevel analysis of security that includes the local, domestic, regional and global levels may not be confined to the more traditionally defined sub-fields of strategic studies. This project seeks to give the opportunity to an outstanding PhD candidate with a bold and innovative research proposal to make a core contribution to this still under-explored area.