The current article does not unravel this conceptual debate, but reviews and interprets the main landmarks of international engagement – in its military, civil and diplomatic facets – in Afghanistan since the deposition of the Taliban regime. Didactically, we identify four stages in this unfinished process: a moment of illusory stability (2001-05); a stage when the Taliban uprising intensified (2006-08); the apex of the conflict, under the sign of the counter-insurgency strategy (2009-11); and the current challenges of the military transition and of the political reconciliation (2012-14). Finally, we will think over the impact that the Afghan War may cause upon the multilateral statebuilding exercises.
A new crisis in Central Africa has recently emerged, involving the rise of a Congolese armed group accused of being supported by Rwanda. The crisis brings fears of the outbreak of a new conflagration in the proportions of the so-called Africa’s World War. The article discusses the crisis and its possible outcomes and solutions.
This article seeks to provide a critical appraisal of the last Iraq War (2003-2010). It focuses on the change in the warlike aims of this war. Its time frame is the increase of the effective – surge – in conjunct with the changes in the strategy conduct since 2007.
The article focuses on determining the level of influence exerted by so-called non-traditional players in the decision making process of Argentina foreign policy during Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández administrations. Consequently, it analyses two cases: pulp mills in Uruguay River and the mine named Pascua Lama.
The current article evaluates the results of “bureaucratic insulation” as a course of action adopted by the Foreign Relations Ministry (MRE) within the brazilian federal administration. The total share of the federal budget received by the MRE between the years of 2000 and 2011 is taken as the measure of success achieved by the “bureaucreatic insulation” strategy.
As soon as he came to power, President Castello Branco announces the theory of the concentrical circles and says that the interests of Brazil will be subordinated to a geographic view. The article will analyze this view and the Brazilian behavior in two multilateral environments, the OAE and the UN.
Trata-se de resenha do livro publicado por José Luiz Gomez Del Prado e Helena Torroja Mateu, ex-integrantes do Grupo de Trabalho da ONU sobre a utilização de mercenários, o qual aponta na direção da regulação, da supervisão e dos controles nacional e internacional das Empresas Militares e de Segurança Privadas (EMSP), conforme projeto de Convenção apresentado ao Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU.
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