A critical assessment of the United States' National Security Strategy and its impact on Latin America

Résumé

The National Security Strategy (NSS) are specific documents
prepared periodically by the United States’ executive,
describing the main concerns of Americans’ national security
and developing strategies to face the challenges. At the same
time, by exposing the US government’s strategic vision, it
contributes to informing the US government’s approach
and intent on various topics related to security and foreign
policy. This paper seeks to analyze the NSS of the last four
American presidents, in a time frame that runs from the
immediate post-Cold War to Trump’s administration, as
well as its influences with regard to Latin America. Using
a quantitative method, through the frequency content
analysis, and a qualitative methodology, based on the
empirical-deductive method, the central objective is to
rationalize that, although there was a relative power vacuum
at the beginning of the 21 st century, there is a return of the
region as an important geopolitical and geoeconomic space
in contemporary times.