KEY DIRECTIONS OF LATINAMERICAN WEAPONS MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND THREATS IN MILITARY AND POLITICAL SPHERES

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In the article in the state of Russia’s national security goes out analysis of the main threats and security issues of Latin American countries in internal and foreign policy areas and also to the study of key trends impacting on the weapons market and its changes in the region. Attention is being given to investigation of the role and influence of these threats on the achieving of objectives, principles and tasks for Latin American countries’ foreign policy concepts in military and political spheres. Also author studied nature of these countries’ military budgets and its emergence, nature of these threats and basing on that, author observes the types of weapons and military equipment required for their minimization and maintaining defense capacities in the region.

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Nikolai Sergeevich Stolyarov

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

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Email: sns147@mail.ru

Doctor of Economy, PhD in Philosophy, Professor of the Department of Public Administration of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, RUDN University, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation, Major-General of Aviation

Miklukho-Maklaya St., 10/2, Moscow, Russia 117198

Boris Igorevich Nekrasov

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: bigboris.rudn@mail.ru

Postgraduate Student of the 1-st year in the Field of Historical Sciences and Archeology, the Department of the Theory and History of International Relations of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of RUDN University

Miklukho-Maklaya St., 10/2, Moscow, Russia 117198

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