Defense Budget Versus Developrnent: a Perspective from Latin American Case

Abstract

The present research constitutes a new reference of study in the understanding of the dynamics that frame the regional context, whose origins are given from the identification of a new regional scenario determined by the configuration of social nuclei -or rather called cities- endowed with the characteristic of state power, which are forced to face new threats that go beyond national borders, and that in order to respond to the challenges have decided to increase their defense budget to maintain the legitimacy of governance and governability. Accordingly, one of the research phases was the analysis of the defense budget of Latin American countries, so this article is the result of a review of the phase in question, through which a comparative relationship between defense spending versus security and development indexes is established, taking Brazil and Colombia as case studies. For this purpose, the article presents the introduction and the methodology used during the research, followed by the results of the review.