Revista Conjuntura Austral

3-15

Authors: Alexandre A. E. Roche

This article aims to analyze the so-called Arab Spring from a historical understanding of the Arab Sunni societies’ formation and development. In doing so, we establish relations between the conservative Wahhabism and Western economic interests, both of which have been contested since the end of the Cold War.

31-50

Authors: Helder Gordim da Silveira

This paper analyses the way by which argentine daily La Nación reported/represented 1964 civilian-military coup in Brazil as a new/fact, intending to underline how that journalistic discourse, as it mobilizes recurrent images and interpretations, possible acted as an important component of an authoritative solution ideology face of the political and institutional crises that were growing in the region since as early as the decade of 1950.

67-88

Authors: Bruno Gonçalves Rosi

With a starting point on historical analysis already carried out and consultation on primary sources, this article aims to narrate the story of the opening of the Amazon River to international trade and navigation. The hypothesis here explored is that to a significant extent, this process occurred under the influence of transnational actors, capable of promoting the adoption of a policy until then largely rejected by the Brazilian statesmen. According to the conclusions obtained, this hypothesis is confirmed. The topics here explored have the intention of giving light to the study of the history of the Brazilian foreign policy, the impact of non-state actors over it, and beyond that, today governmental politics concerning the internationalization of the Amazon Region.