Revista Conjuntura Austral

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Authors: Geraldine Rosas Duarte

In April 2015 MINURSO’s mandate was extended once again, although there´s no evidence that the Sahrawi issue is moving towards resolution. The article explores UN’s role in the conflict, reflecting on the limited progress achieved through the intervention.

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Authors: Gustavo Henrique Feddersen; Bruno Magno; Athos Munhoz da Silva; João Rodrigues Chiarelli

The article aims to indicate elements to support a present analysis of China-United States strategic interaction involving the Taiwan issue. Thus, the study analyses four cases that could be considered turning points in the interaction between the countries in order to draw long-term patterns which will help in the study of the current situation: the Korean War, the First and Second Strait Crises, the Sino-US rapprochement and the Third Strait Crisis. Afterwards, it summarizes the observed patterns and list the recent developments in the strategic layout between China and the United States. The conclusion points out the proliferation of elements that strengthen the logic of preemption in East Asia, especially regarding Taiwan, but also that there are alternative proposals, such as the Offshore Control.

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Authors: Pedro Vinicius Pereira Brites; Bruna Coelho Jaeger

This article deals with the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Thus aims to evaluate the impact that the establishment of AIIB has on the current global financial governance, in view of the role of China and the international insertion profile of the country.

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Authors: Fábio Régio Bento

In this research we shall verify the influence of Nicaraguan experience on breaking the paradigm under which religion and religious actors would be more associated to status quo preservation rather than its rupture. According to our work hypothesis, in Nicaragua religion was not the opium of the people, used for its social anesthesia, but the promoter of social changes, and through international diffusion of this experience, mainly in the context of socialist countries, the alliance between laic and Christian socialists in Nicaragua promoted also a shift in the traditional hermeneutic paradigm which reduced religion to the permanent condition of opium of the people.