Traditional and emerging dimensions of border security in the far north of Chile

Abstract

This article investigates the assumptions by which the border security agenda in the extreme north of Chile is constructed and some of its foreseeable consequences. These assumptions focus on the validity of traditional threats and their overlap with elements of renewed security, classified as transnational threats. Based on multiple interviews and discussions with academics and decision makers in 2019, it is determined that interpretations that con-sider border relations as a security field prevail, although they begin to consi-der speeches referring to cooperatives cross-border dynamics in an incipient way.