중남미 국가의 대미의존도와 국방비의 관계- 비대칭동맹 이론의 관점에서

Abstract

The countries in Latin American countries and the Caribbean region can be distinguished by their military expenditure, and the difference between the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) members of Central America and leftist countries of South America is very obvious. This difference is mainly created by the existence of an asymmetric alliance. Although there is no military alliance between the Untied States (U.S.) and CAFTA-DR contracting countries, the relationship has a characteristic of asymmetric alliance with high rate of dependencies of CAFTA-DR members on politics and economy toward the United States. The dependency on the U.S. of weak and small countries in Central America is relatively high politically and economically, whereas the dependency of South American countries has declined by the economic development of their leftist governments. Consequently, such political and economical dependencies of CAFTA-DR members reduce the security burden on the one hand. However, on the other hand, they are subject to restriction by the U.S. in terms of their political decisions. In contrast, the security burden of the South American countries is rising, but they have the liberty of choice in their political decision making. To support this argument, this thesis examines the economic dependency by studying the trade dependency and the conclusion of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It also looks at the political dependency by reviewing the political involvement of the U.S. and the ban on hightech arms importation in Latin America. This thesis also investigates the security burden through military expenditure of each countries as well as the military assistance from the United States. Moreover, this thesis seeks to study the limited authority through the scale and characteristic of the troop dispatch and response on the War in Iraq and the patterns of participation for the International Criminal Court (ICC) of those countries