Publication

This paper first looks back at the US's security policy towards Latin America from the unveiling of the Monroe Doctrine onwards. It then looks forward and ponders how the region’s security could evolve in the decades to come. In anticipation of these future challenges, the paper concludes by arguing that the US should develop a new and forward-looking military strategy for the Western Hemisphere. Among other things, it should seek to marginalize drug cartels and other non-state actors, contain regional rivals such as Venezuela, and slow the growing influence of outside powers.