THE OPERATIONAL LAW AND THE HYBRID THREATS IN THE WHITE PAPERS OF PERU AND BRAZIL

Abstract

Peru and Brazil created their White Papers as strategic elements for their security and defense policy. Comparing them is an exercise that goes beyond finding similarities and differences, and in this sense, this article tries to recognize how each White Paper is the result in retrospect of the former dictatorial regimes, seeking a new way to consolidate both liberal democracy, the capitalist system and civil-military relations. The study establishes that each process responds to the need to build a point of stabilization of political orders that seek to insert themselves into the complexity offered by the contemporary globalized and interdependent international system. For this reason, for these countries, democracy and respect for Human Rights are established as the guide and international instruments are the guiding substratum of the State’s action in any of its instance.