Why Europe Needs Latin America
Despite recent tensions, the region should be considered a strategic transatlantic partner for security and defense.
BUENOS AIRES—In debates over European strategic autonomy, Latin America is either missing or casually folded into the vague construct of the “Global South.” Europeans played a central role in shaping this concept, a framework that may have held some relevance in the post–Cold War era but now constrains strategic imagination and obscures Latin America’s potential as a stabilizing partner for Europe and the broader West. Europe has failed to include Latin America as part of its security and defense strategy, prioritizing instead the social and cultural dimensions of the...
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