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The Origins of Security Cooperation in the Southern Cone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

João Resende-Santos*
Affiliation:
Bentley College, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

Argentine-Brazilian relations have undergone a remarkable transformation over the last two decades, from enduring rivalry to cooperation. Dating back to the late 1970s, security cooperation has been a byproduct of two different sets of factors, strategic and military organizational, that propelled the two countries independently but simultaneously toward peaceful settlement. The 1979–80 settlement of disputes over hydroelectric power and nuclear technology not only ended centuries of militarized competition but established the first institutional structures of what is today one of the world's most durable security regimes.

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Copyright © University of Miami 2002

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