Revista Conjuntura Austral

4-32

Authors: Igor Castellano da Silva, Lucas Kerr de Oliveira, Mamadou Alpha Diallo

In recent months we witnessed a serious political crisis in Ivory Coast, which has historical and structural origins. This article analyzes the internal and external factors related to the crisis and questions the sustainability of the solution, namely the employ of extra-regional interventionism.

49-68

Authors: Tiago Estivallet Nunes

This article aims at identifying a pattern in the relationship between Brazil and Venezuela through the analyses of their bilateral relations in the last three decades (1979-2009). It argues that the close ties among the two nations goes beyond ideological inclinations and is part of an integration process in the South American subcontinent, inasmuch as it is a result of a clear reading of the international scenario by the diplomacy of both countries.

92-120

Authors: Alfa Oumar Diallo

The African chiefs of State, after the transformation of the Organization of the African Unity in African Union, proposed the New Partnership for the Development of Africa (NEPAD), like an area for a new relation of partnership between Africa and the international community. In this sense of new partnership, the African leaders got involved in promoting in his countries, in his region and in the continent, the peace, the security, the democracy, the good government, the respect of the human rights and a healthy economical management, like a strategy to orientate the development of Africa in the century XXI. The NEPAD caused a positive reaction in the international community. The NEPAD rests on bases of lasting development in the continent, without which they become impossible concrete results. Between these bases we have: the democracy, the good government, the economical government and the government of the enterprises. To reach the objective, the NEPAD proposes institutional reforms like the use of ways of evaluation that allow to set the good government up definitely in the structures of the State.

145-151

Authors: Diego Rafael Canabarro

Review of CLARKE, Richard A; KNAKE, Robert K. (2010). Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What To Do About It. Nova Iorque: HarperCollins, 290 p. [ISBN: 978-0-06-196223-3]