Traditional and emerging dimensions of border security in the far north of Chile

This article investigates the assumptions by which the border security agenda in the extreme north of Chile is constructed and some of its foreseeable consequences. These assumptions focus on the validity of traditional threats and their overlap with elements of renewed security, classified as trans...

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Auteurs principaux: Ovando, Cristian, Álvarez , Gonzalo, González Pizarro , Sergio, Iturra Valenzuela, Luis
Format: Online
Langue:spa
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Publié: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2020
Accès en ligne:https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/877
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Résumé:This article investigates the assumptions by which the border security agenda in the extreme north of Chile is constructed and some of its foreseeable consequences. These assumptions focus on the validity of traditional threats and their overlap with elements of renewed security, classified as transnational threats. Based on multiple interviews and discussions with academics and decision makers, together with the analysis of border incidents between Chile and Bolivia, it is determined that interpretations that consider border relations as a security field prevail, although they begin to consider speeches referring to cooperatives cross-border dynamics in an incipient way,