This article offers an analysis of the transnational discursive construction processes informing Latin American security governance in the aftermath of 9/11. It demonstrates that the Global War on Terror provided an opportunity for external and aligned local knowledge producers in the security establishments throughout the Americas to reframe Latin America's security problems through the promotion of a militarised security epistemology, and derived policies, centred on the region's ‘convergent threats’. In tracing the discursive repercussions of this epistemic reframing, the article shows that, by tapping into these discourses, military bureaucracies throughout the Americas were able to overcome their previous institutional marginalisation vis-à-vis civilian agencies. This development contributed to the renaissance of counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism discourses and policies in the region, allowing countries such as Colombia and Brazil to reposition themselves globally by exporting their military expertise for confronting post-9/11 threats beyond the region.

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进入 9/11：拉丁美洲和全球反恐战争

本文分析了 9/11 事件后影响拉丁美洲安全治理的跨国话语构建过程。它表明，全球反恐战争为整个美洲的安全机构中的外部和一致的当地知识生产者提供了一个机会，通过促进军事化的安全认识论和衍生政策，以该地区的“趋同”为中心，重新构建拉丁美洲的安全问题。威胁'。在追踪这种认知重构的话语影响时，文章表明，通过利用这些话语，整个美洲的军事官僚机构能够克服他们以前相对于民事机构的制度边缘化。