Vulnerability of national sovereignty and reconfiguration of the role of the Salvadoran state

Abstract

Throughout history, El Salvador has had border problems with Honduras, this being the most disputed border and in effect the only external threat to salvadoran territorial sovereignty. However, in recent years, the challenges to the sovereignty of countries are within their own borders, with legal and illegal groups that have been eroding territorial control; showing that the strategic aspects and of absolute dominion of the territory, are no longer the exclusive authority of the State.

For El Salvador as for any country, the loss or diminution of its territory undermines its sovereignty and endangers its own survival. That is why research should be conducted on the importance of the territory, but even more, on the various contemporary ways in which the state authority has been mocked with the strategies of groups that also seek to consolidate their particular interests in a nation. Research should focus on how these groups apply the principles of geopolitics, geostrategics and geoeconomics in the pursuit of their interests.