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- Title
Pandemia y desintegración regional: la COVID-19 y el retroceso de la comunidad de seguridad sudamericana.
- Authors
Frenkel, Alejandro; Dasso-Martorell, Agostina
- Abstract
The article analyzes the development of a security community in South America and the impact that the coronavirus pandemic had on it. By using a constructivist methodology, the paper analyzes how the crisis of regionalism, the difficulty in defining common threats and the erosion of a collective identity hampered the maturation of the community. In this context, it is argued that the health crisis caused by COVID-19 gave rise to a securitization process that deepened the process of dismantling that community and was reflected in three indicators: 1) the proliferation of discourses that identify neighbors as a threat to safety and health; 2) a fortification of the borders; 3) an increase in the militarization of citizen security and other spheres of the public arena. It is concluded that this type of practice and discourse gives rise to a type of political community similar to an anarchic society, where states identify themselves as rivals rather than friends.
- Subjects
SOUTH America; COVID-19 pandemic; POLITICAL community; GROUP identity; REGIONALISM; FORTIFICATION; PUBLIC sphere
- Publication
URVIO - Revista Latinoamericana de Seguridad Ciudadana, 2021, Issue 31, p25
- ISSN
1390-3691
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17141/urvio.31.2021.4987