Cooperation and security in the cross-border space of the "Committee for the development of the Uruguay River Basin" – CCRU

Abstract

The article presents the results of the Research Project "Cross-border cooperation and citizen security in the space of the Committee for the Development of the Uruguay River Basin (CCRU)", housed at the National University of Entre Ríos (UNER), years 2021-2023.
The research addresses border regions and their security dynamics in the space of the CCRU, created in 2018. Three specific border areas are selected to examine, in the CCRU scenario, cooperative and security projects: ColónPaysandú; Concord-Leap; and the triple border Monte Caseros (Argentina), Bella Unión (Uruguay) and Barra do Quaraí (Brazil).The work methodology is qualitative, with exploratory phase at the beginning and a second descriptive-interpretative phase. The results show the overlap and lack of articulation between the multiple existing coordination spaces at borders, both intergovernmental, bilateral and cross-border. The multiplication of cooperative instances has not facilitated or achieved an institutionalized coordination, nor a common criteria for a 
comprehensive cross-border citizen security.