South America in the post-cold war era

The end of Cold War apparently put the South America region out of the main concerns of the US security agenda. After 9/11, such perception has gained importance in literature, when US global strategy focused on an otherness whose geographic position was nothing but distant from the southern territo...

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Autores: Duarte Villa, Rafael, Rodrigues, Thiago, Chagas Bastos, Fabrício
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Escola de Guerra Naval (EGN)
Repositorio:Revista da Escola de Guerra Naval (Ed. Português. Online)
Idioma:portugués
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Palabra clave:South America
U.S. War on Drugs
Post-Cold War
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Duarte Villa, Rafael
South America
U.S. War on Drugs
Post-Cold War
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title_full South America in the post-cold war era
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Duarte Villa, Rafael
Rodrigues, Thiago
Chagas Bastos, Fabrício
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Rodrigues, Thiago
Chagas Bastos, Fabrício
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Chagas Bastos, Fabrício
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U.S. War on Drugs
Post-Cold War
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U.S. War on Drugs
Post-Cold War
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