Regarding the Bicentenary: A Review of Central America as a Space-Route From Critical Geopolitics

 

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Autor: Arévalo-Mejía, Karen
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2021
Descripción:The independence processes in Central America have been influenced by the area’s geographical position and its geopolitical relevance in the continent. The region has been seen by the global powers as a space-route, especially from the eighties to the present. This geopolitical condition has predisposed the formation of the Central American countries by fragmenting their development process and weakening their whole potential; as a result, the territory is even more vulnerable to external interests. Therefore, analyzing Central America from the Critical Geopolitics perspective will contribute to understand it as a place defined by politics of space in which global powers interfere undermining possibilities for regional integration among other effects. The geographical location of this region has been used as a trade-route for international transportation, being this one of the reasons for the dispute regarding the Panama Canal’s control by global powers; besides its strategic location allows other kinds of flows as it is the case of migrants and drugs, for example. Since thearea has been built due to external influences,
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/16382
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/16382
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Palabra clave:Bicentenario
Centroamérica
deconstrucción
geopolítica crítica
potencias
ruta internacional
Bicentenary
Central America
Critical Geopolitics
deconstruction
global powers
international route