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Enter 9/11: Latin America And The Global War On Terror, Markus-Michael Müller
Enter 9/11: Latin America And The Global War On Terror, Markus-Michael Müller
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This article offers an analysis of the transnational discursive construction processes informing Latin American security governance in the aftermath of 9/11. It demonstrates that the Global War on Terror provided an opportunity for external and aligned local knowledge producers in the security establishments throughout the Americas to reframe Latin America's security problems through the promotion of a militarized security epistemology, and derived policies, centered on the region's ‘convergent threats’. In tracing the discursive repercussions of this epistemic reframing, the article shows that, by tapping into these discourses, military bureaucracies throughout the Americas were able to overcome their previous institutional marginalization …