REGIONAL SECURITY DETERMINANTS: LATAM and CHINA

Regional security frameworks have been present in the last decades in both Asia-Pacific and Latin America (LATAM) regions, but it seems that their motivators are pretty different - and we can think on some of those essential conjecture determinants. In this regard, current security threats in the Asia Pacific are more geopolitically associated than the Latin American challenges, which are governed by domestic instabilities, border security, and transnational crime issues.

Although an expressive part of the challenges lies in problems such as illegal flows of drugs and arms, people trafficking, or institutional degradation, the absence of particular interest in the LATAM region from the regional powers opened space for other interests, concurrence, and access to other funding mechanisms that can indirectly affect the current demands for the regional security.