Security in the Andean Community of Nations: The Member States in the 21st-Century

This book aims to offer an analysis of the Andean Community of Nations which reflects military, political, societal, economic and environmental security issues. Although Venezuela opted out of the Community in 2006, it has been included in the analysis due to its inevitable interlinking with other countries in the region and its enormous geostrategic importance for the area. The first chapter, written by Pavlína Springerová, details security threats posed by Bolivia. The second chapter and final chapter, respectively dealing with Colombia and Venezuela, were authored by Martin Hrabálek, the third and fourth chapters, dealing with Ecuador and Peru, were written by Věra Stojarová.

Věra Stojarová works as an Academic Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Political Research and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. Her professional focus is on research in the field of security and party systems in the Balkan and Andean regions. She has undertaken a large number of academic stays abroad, among them stays at The Hague in 1997, the J. F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin in 2004, the University of Heidelberg in 2005-2006 and the IWM in Vienna in 2009. E-mail: stojarova@fss.muni.cz.

Martin Hrabálek is a PhD student in the Department of International Relations and European Studies of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno. His research focuses primarily on integration processes in Latin America and security issues in Latin America. Email: martin.hrabalek@gmail.com.

Pavlína Springerová is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Faculty of Arts at the University of Hradec Králové and Head of the Center for Ibero-American Studies. Her research interests center on Latin American political systems (especially those of Andean countries), the Spanish political system, the Western Sahara dispute and Czech regionalist political parties. Email:  pavlina.springerova@uhk.cz.