Human Security, Democracy, And Development in the Americas: The Washington Consensus Redux?(Essay) Human Security, Democracy, And Development in the Americas: The Washington Consensus Redux?(Essay)

Human Security, Democracy, And Development in the Americas: The Washington Consensus Redux?(Essay‪)‬

Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2008, Jan, 33, 65

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Abstract. Human security has become a component of the international foreign policy coherence consensus, together with political liberalization and neoliberal economic policy. Although the human security paradigm, concerned as it is with fragile states and internal conflict, has had little currency for Latin America as compared to Africa, it is being applied to Haiti. The alternative paradigm for understanding Latin America since the end of the Cold War has been that of democratic transition, but the distance between the two may not be as great as often assumed: both paradigms see increasing social exclusion as signalling an alarm in the region. In the context of the "war on terror," human security is increasingly redefined in practice as part of a broader hard security agenda; this is illustrated by Canada's international policy toward Haiti, which is exemplary of international policy coherence. Although Haiti is currently the only country in the hemisphere treated according to a human security policy lens, the global "borderlands" that constitute the objects of human security interventions are all cases where democratic transition has failed and social conflict is acute. Does this signal a possible future for the stalled or conflictive "transitions" of Latin America? Resume. La securite humaine est devenue une composante du consensus international sur la coherence de la politique exterieure, avec entre autres composantes la liberalisation politique et les reformes economiques neoliberales. Bien que le paradigme de la securite humaine, dont les preoccupations majeures sont les Etats fragiles et les conflits internes, soit d'usage peu courant en Amerique latine, contrairement a l'Afrique, on l'applique actuellement a Haiti. Le paradigme dominant pour interpreter la realite latino-americaine depuis la fin de la Guerre froide est plutot celui de la transition democratique ; cependant, le fosse entre ces deux paradigmes n'est peut-etre pas aussi large qu'il n'apparait, car les deux signalent l'exclusion sociale croissante dans la region comme indicateur de risque. Dans le contexte de la 'guerre contre la terreur', la securite humaine est progressivement redefinie dans le cadre d'une approche securitaire 'dure' plus large : ceci est illustre par la politique canadienne envers Haiti comme partie prenante de l'agenda international de coherence. Malgre le fait qu'Haiti soit actuellement le seul cas declare de securite humaine dans l'hemisphere, les zones frontieres de la globalisation que sont les lieux d'intervention au nom de la securite humaine sont toutes des transitions democratiques manquees connaissant une tension sociale aigue. Ceci signale-t-il un scenario d'avenir possible pour les Etats latino-americains de transition inachevee ou conflictuelle?

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History
RELEASED
2008
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
33
Pages
PUBLISHER
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
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256
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