Abstract

FRENKEL, Alejandro  and  GARCIA SCRIMIZZI, Felipe Horacio. Military diplomacy and ‘new threats’: the United States of America in the Conference of American Armies, 2008-2015. E&c [online]. 2024, vol.1, n.18, pp.81-100. ISSN 2477-9245.  https://doi.org/10.37228/estado_comunes.v1.n18.2024.340.

This article analyses the role of the United States in the Conference of American Armies (CAA) in the period 2008-2015. It explains how the U.S. used military diplomacy to install a vision of hemispheric security focused on the “new threats” (drug trafficking, terrorism, and organised crime) within the conference. To this end, statistical indicators were drawn up based on documentary analysis of the Commanders’ Agreements and the minutes of the CAA plenary sessions. Among the military diplomacy mechanisms used by the U.S. are the continuous invitations to CAA member countries to participate in training exercises (PANAMAX, FA-HUM and PKO-A) in which the thematic guides developed by the CAA were put into practice. The CAA is a body that operates with a certain degree of autonomy from defence diplomacy, which creates difficulties in the political management of the armed forces in the region.

Keywords : military diplomacy; “new threats”; Conference of American Armies; hemispheric security; armed forces.

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