Nuevos instrumentos de cooperación en gestión de crisis entre América Latina y la Unión Europea:Riesgos y oportunidades

Resumen

The signature in 2014 of Framework Partnership Agreements (FPA) for crisis management between the EU and Colombia and Chile gave a new instrument to the EU-Latin American and the Caribbean relations. This paper reflects on the risks and opportunities posed by these agreements for the whole of the EU-CELAC bi-regional relationship and the common goal of building up a collective security more effective and legitimate. These agreements encourage the Latin American participation in crisis management missions and they also strengthen the bilateral relationship with these countries, without dealing with the regional dimension of the EU-Latin American and the Caribbean relationship, so that they could convey potential risk undermining the confidence arising in the buid-up of a new regional security and defense architecture in the South American space and in the whole of the region.