Security in the Andean region, diplomacy, post cold war transformations

Mapping Transregional Security Structures in the Andean Region The state has not been immune to post-Cold War transformations and the state centered model no longer applies. Global forces have resulted in a reconfiguration of the state that has had important consequences for the institution of sovereignty and for the Westphalian model. New global processes do not imply the death of the state but they suggest the need to question the conventional disaggregated, state centric view …

…processes that we have explore in this article suggest that there are multiple regional orders hat encompass distinct geographic spaces and actors. Oil ands other strategic resources span certain territories, for instance, while the effects of the Colombian conflict and transnational criminal operations encompass quite different ones., In other words, he notion of the region itself is not a fixed one: rather it caries according to the issue at stake and the primary actors involved.