Abstract
Introduction. The article studies the Triple Frontier – a Tri-Border Area along the junction of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The main aim is to analyze the reasons for its perception as an ‘outlaw territory’, the term generally associated with the terrorist threat. Methods and Materials. Stigmatization theory, symbolic interactionism and securitization theory serve as a theoretical and methodological basis for the research. The main sources for the analysis are official reports, communiques, interviews, and publications in leading periodicals. Analysis. The article analyzes the formation of international perception of the Triple Frontier since the mid1990s. It highlights objective and subjective grounds for the negative image that has been created to date; defines the mechanisms exploited by the United States to stigmatize the region and the reasons for selective securitization of threats emanating from there. According to the authors, the Triple Frontier is characterized by a complex set of relationships between multiple stakeholders. Their diverse and often contradictory interests form a convergent-divergent space which affects security of local residents, security of Latin American countries, and, to a certain extent, international security in general. Results. In the final part of the article the main scientific results obtained during the research are formulated, and possible ways of further development regarding this case are outlined. The authors conclude that to destigmatize the Triple Frontier it is necessary to rebrand it – to create a new, positive image, taking advantage of the geopolitical and geo-economic situation, as well as the availability of unique water resources.
Highlights
The article studies the Triple Frontier – a Tri-Border Area along the junction of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay
The aim of the work was to analyze the international perception of the Triple Frontier held by Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay in the course of the stigmatization theory and to find out the reasons why this territory is associated primarily with the terrorist threat
– the provisions of symbolic interactionism and the stigmatization theoryhave been highlighted, it allows us to explain differences in assessments of a degree and nature of the threat posed by the Triple Frontier to international security;
Summary
The article studies the Triple Frontier – a Tri-Border Area along the junction of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Particular interest in the terrorism issue is due to the fact that the very name ‘the Triple Frontier’ started being used in the international lexicon after the US intelligence services had suspected the presence of Islamist terrorist groups in the region This collocation appeared after two terrorist attacks in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994, at first in the discourse of public officials and in the US periodicals, and on the pages of Latin American newspapers and in Spanish-language documents. It came in use in 1998, when Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay signed the General Plan for the Tri-Border Area (Spanish: el Plan General de Seguridad para la Triple Frontera), which gave a prominent place to preventive counter-terrorism measures
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