Padrões de cooperação regional em segurança: a Teoria dos Complexos Regionais de Segurança (TCRS) aplicada à complexidade do caso do narcotráfico no Arco Norte da América do Sul (1999-2020)

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Mangueira, Gabriel Pessoa Coelho
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; Brasil; Ciência Política; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais; Centro de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
• Palavras-chave em Português: Narcotráfico na América do Sul; Regionalização; Cooperação em segurança; Construtivismo; Drug trafficking in South America; Regionalization; Security cooperation; Construtivism; CNPQ::OUTROS::RELACOES INTERNACIONAIS
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/34560

Drug trafficking in South America is a destabilizing problem that directly affects security cooperation in the region, especially in the Northern Arc. Considering the difference in the treatment of the actors involved in addressing the problem, this research seeks to contribute by unveiling what were the main causes for cooperative or non-cooperative behavior around the issue in the period from 1999 to 2020. To achieve this, it uses as theoretical basis the Regional Security Complexes Theory (RSCT) in its constructivist dimension, applying it to chosen variables broken down in detail, through process tracing. The establishment of behavior patterns of the chosen units, then, reveals the different positions and their contributions to the evolution of the case: drug trafficking in the region brings a level of complexity to its analysis by the units that hinder regional cooperation most of the time. Trust in the external power (USA), firstly, and the leader's direction based on the level of domestic governance available, secondly, cause levels of regional disarticulation around the problem; especially until 2010. In some moments conducive to cooperation, regionalization advances, but comes up against problems of state capacity and the leader's ideological convictions. In this sense, this research seeks to systematically organize an object widely studied in academia, but in a compartmentalized and isolated manner. Systemic explanations for the phenomena presented are proposed, contributing to the continuation of studies and possible paths for advancing regional cooperation around the problem. Overall, this research discusses the role of different elements at levels of analysis in international relations and how they interact in the regional environment, through a constructivist approach based on the RSCT, within the context of a complex regional problem such as drug trafficking.