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A Security Community –“If You Can Keep It”: Demographic Change and the North American Zone of Peace
Registro en:
1870-3550
N_2007_0002_0001_0077
CONACYT
2448-7228
Autor
Haglund, David G.
Institución
Resumen
Usually, scholarly research on security communities focuses on the conditions and the consequences of their forming; rare are the works that examine how and why these arrangements might decay and perhaps even disappear altogether. This is hardly a surprise given that in certain fortunate parts of the worldpublic and elites alike have come to accept that interstate conflict at least in their neighborhood is a vestige of the past. No matter how haphazardly managed relations among them might be the dominant expectation is that their security community is virtually indestructible –or to put it in the vernacular “idiot-proof.” This article critically examines that perspective. Specifically it explores the potential impact of ethnic (including for the purposes of this project religious) diasporas on continental security. The issue is framed from the point of view of the U.S. debate not only because that debate has so many implications for the United States’ northern and southern neighbors Canada and Mexico but also because in a real sense it is those two neighbors who for different reasons are increasingly stylized in the U.S. as the source of the problem.