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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428911561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 47

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Author: Max G. Manwaring
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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"This is one in the Special Series of monographs stemming from the February 2001 conference on Plan Colombia cosponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center of the University of Miami. In substantive U.S. national security terms, Dr. Manwaring addresses the questions, Why Colombia, Why Now, and What Is To Be Done? He explains the importance of that troubled country to the United States. He points out that the fragile democracy of Colombia is at risk, and that the violent spillover effects of three simultaneous wars pose a threat to the rest of the Western Hemisphere and the interdependent global community. Then Dr. Manwaring makes a case against continued tactical and operational approaches to the Colombian crisis and outlines what must be done. In that connection, he recommends an actionable political-military strategy to attain security, stability, democratic governance, and a sustainable peace. The proposed strategy would not be costly in monetary or military terms. It would, however, require deliberate planning, cooperation, time, and will."--SSI.

Author: James Stavridis
Publisher: NDU Press
ISBN: 0160870429
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, reflects on his tenure as Commander of United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM). The first Admiral to command Southern Command, Admiral Stavridis broke with tradition from day one, discarding the customary military staff model and creating an innovative organization designed not solely to subdue adversaries, but ... to build durable and lasting partnerships. From his unique perspective as commander, Stavridis uses his personal style to describe his vision for the command's role in the Americas, making most of limited resources to create goodwill and mutual respect, while countering illegal drug trafficking, overcoming a dangerous insurgency in Colombia, and responding to humanitarian crises. He devotes chapters to USSOUTHCOM's role in nurturing institutional respect for human rights among military and security forces of the region, advancing health security, and supporting a new regional strategy to counter the increasing challenge of urban and transnational gang violence. Citing the hemisphere's common geography, culture, economy, and history, Stavridis makes a case for a common approach and strategy for defending our "shared home of the Americas" through an international, interagency, and private-public approach, all connected through coherent effective strategic communication--Publisher's description.

Author: Robert Evan Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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"Through exhaustive field research and interviews, Ellis inventories, country by country, China's rapidly expanding commercial and diplomatic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean. The irresistible allure of trade with the Chinese is a mixed blessing for the region: to transport raw materials and agricultural goods, a new East-West infrastructure is expanding Pacific coast ports from Mexico to Chile, once again leaving Latin America overly dependent on the export of low-value-added commodities. And although China's motives may be primarily commercial, the implications of its incursions are geopolitical: visiting Chinese leaders have declared Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela to be "strategic partners." As Ellis documents, China is investing heavily in Venezuelan crude oil, despite worries over Hugo Chávez's volatility and fears of embroiling itself in disputes between Caracas and Washington. China - together with illiberal petrostates - is a vital backstop for Chávez's authoritarian populist project and unrelenting drive to undercut U.S. interests and influence in the region. Inexplicably, Foggy Bottom has seemed largely oblivious to this concerted geopolitical challenge so close to home." -- www.foreignaffairs.com (Oct.15, 2010).

Author: Max G. Manwaring
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781463545093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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This monograph by Dr. Max G. Manwaring is another in a series to emerge from a joint project on Plan Colombia begun last February by the U.S. Army War College and The Dante B. Fascell North-South Center. In it, the author places the dilemma of Colombia's three-front "war" within the framework of the national security strategy of the United States. Dr. Manwaring answers the questions of "why" and "how" in clear contextual terms. The fact that "the fragile democracy of Colombia is at risk" poses a threat to the entire Western Hemisphere. It is not, the author points out, a single-country problem in a country that has experienced instability and insurgency for over 50 years. The situation has deteriorated to the point where Colombia could become a failed state, with massive spillover effects of insurgency, criminality, and narco-trafficking in all of its neighboring countries. In the post-Cold War scenario, security in Latin America means for the United States more than keeping Communism out of the Hemisphere, which it once did. It now means underpinning democracy and free-market economics, plus close cooperation on the immense "shared problems" of drugs, crime, immigration, and environmental concerns in the hemisphere. Colombia, in this sense, is a challenge that is highly complex. It is, as the author points out, "multidimensional, multilateral and multiorganizational." In these terms, Plan Colombia and that country's positive turnaround and contribution to hemispheric stability, prosperity, and peace will depend on civil-military solutions implemented at the strategic level. Ultimately, that will depend on U.S. leadership. Dr. Manwaring presents an eloquent case for this country to exercise that strategic leadership. To do so, he underscores, Washington must advance beyond its traditional swings from "benign neglect" of the Hemisphere to various forms of operational-level political, economic, and military intervention (often misguided). I would add that Washington must also outgrow its short attention span. That will require a great deal of analysis and education, contributing to which is the underlying purpose of this project. Our institutions are pleased to make this contribution.

Author: James G. Stavridis
Publisher: NDU Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Since its creation in 1963, United States Southern Command has been led by 30 senior officers representing all four of the armed forces. None has undertaken his leadership responsibilities with the cultural sensitivity and creativity demonstrated by Admiral Jim Stavridis during his tenure in command. Breaking with tradition, Admiral Stavridis discarded the customary military model as he organized the Southern Command Headquarters. In its place he created an organization designed not to subdue adversaries, but instead to build durable and enduring partnerships with friends. His observation that it is the business of Southern Command to launch "ideas not missiles" into the command's area of responsibility gained strategic resonance throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America, and at the highest levels in Washington, DC.

Author: Lars Schoultz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400858496
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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Lars Schoultz proposes a way for all those interested in U.S. foreign policy fully to appreciate the terms of the present debate. To understand U.S. policy in Latin America, he contends, one must critically examine the deeply held beliefs of U.S. policy makers about what Latin America means to U.S. national security. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: University of Miami. North-South Center
Publisher: University of Miami Iberian Studies Institute
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This volume examines inter-American security issues in the United States and Latin America, and explores the impact of global changes on the Western Hemisphere. Differing economic, political and strategic potential and influence in the emerging world system is discussed.

Author: John A. Cope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Changes in the U.S. approach to security affairs in the Americas are being influenced by: The April 1998 Presidential Summit in Santiago, Chile, which provided a catalyst for replacing the demeaning, assistance-focused mind-set of U.S. hemispheric security policy. Hemispheric and sub-regional trade and investment partnerships that provide a model on which to base cooperation in security affairs. The need for the United States to be committed to multilateral partnerships on a voluntary, ad hoc basis, and, to the acceptance of a gradual move toward military interoperability.

Author: Nicholas J. Spykman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351532081
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War, Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics, Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States, he explained, was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War, envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally, Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U.S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia, and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War, the U.S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U.S. security, supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass, coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations, makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century.