Security Policy
The Security Policy program focuses on the rapidly changing military relationship between the U.S. and Latin America. As the global priorities of the U.S. change, so to the military funding priorities, and just as the “drug war” replaced the “cold war” with the fall of the Soviet Union, the “global war on terror” has replaced the “drug war” as the number one priority of the United States in all relationships with foreign nations.
Even as the monikers and funding priorities have shifted, Latin America has continued to struggle with fundamental challenges such as poverty and inequality. These root problems have combined with public security crises and blurred (and rapidly blurring) lines between military and police functions.
