| Summary: | This paper analyzes the elements that constitute Mexico’s military notion of national security. The original formulation of the concept of national security and related notions, such as national power, is found in the works of university academics in the United States between the 1930s and 1940s. In the case of Mexico, the background of the notion of internal security is studied and traced to the Spanish monarchy in the colonial era, passing through the 19th and 20th centuries constitutionalism. The article highlights how the development proposal attached to the doctrine became an axiom in the Latin American versions, justifying the intervention of military personnel in functions considered of a civil nature. Finally, how the doctrine of national security served to justify a reconfiguration of civil-military relations in the region’s countries, including Mexico, is examined. This work is an initial effort to review a theoretical framework that has not essentially changed since its formulation in the early 1980s.
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