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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 …
Venezuela’S Toxic Relations With Iran And Hezbollah: An Avenue Of Violence, Crime, Corruption And Terrorism, Christian Vianna De Azevedo
Venezuela’S Toxic Relations With Iran And Hezbollah: An Avenue Of Violence, Crime, Corruption And Terrorism, Christian Vianna De Azevedo
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Venezuela’s relations with Iran date back into the sixties when both were founding members of the OPEC. Iran’s influence in Latin America has become quite large since the Iranian revolution. Iran sees Latin America as a strategic priority for its global positioning. The Lebanese immigration towards South America has begun a while ago. But there’s a period, during the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) when a large number of Lebanese immigrants came to the continent. Back then, according to some experts, Hezbollah and Iran took advantage of this mass migration and infiltrated their agents and recruiters among the Muslim migrants. Hezbollah …