The concept of security, and its redefinition, has been gaining significant importance in the recent years, especially in our continent. Major debates regarding the meaning of security are shifting to revolve around two main questions: The first, addressing the ´security against what´ claim, emphasizes the internal and non-traditional threats that have arisen as a result of a lack of governance and the deficient fulfillment of basic human needs, in contrast to the inter-state threats related to the traditional security model. The second, closely related to the ´whose security´ question, underlines the need to distinguish between different levels of security, where that of the individual starts gaining more attention over the traditional focus on the state.

In the Latin American region the problem is that the concept of ´national security´ developed a particularly difficult history, considering ... continúa en archivo PDF

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Espriú Guerra, A. 2005. Human Security in Latin America: Contesting and Revising the Current Hemispheric Security System in the Americas. Tesis Licenciatura. Relaciones Internacionales. Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales e Historia, Escuela de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de las Américas Puebla. Mayo. Derechos Reservados © 2005.