Revista Conjuntura Austral

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Authors: Diego Rafael Canabarro

After the reaction to the Snowden revelations in 2013 and 2014, the Internet was not mentioned by Dilma Rousseff at the opening ceremony of the UN General Assembly in 2015. In 2016, her successor was silent again. Such a silence is partially explained by the same set of reasons. Even though the circumstances in 2015 might absolve the gap, they do not condone it in 2016. Keywords: United Nations; Snowden Affairs; Internet governance.

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Authors: João Arthur Reis

This work aims to analyze the political economy of the United States interventionist policies since the end of the Cold War. In order to do so, the transformations in the Armed Forces Structure since the Vietnam War shall be observed under the prism of State-Market relations.

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Authors: Diego Trindade d'Ávila Magalhães, Júlia de Mello Feliciano, Rafael Lemos da Silva

The present article analyzes the UNASUR agenda on military transparency, and discusses the following questions: How did the South American agenda of military transparency emerge? What does the promotion of military transparency mean to UNASUR members? What challenges do South American states face in developing this agenda? To make progress, it is necessary to institutionalize the agenda of military transparency, promote transparency within each South-American state, and prioritize the solution of geopolitical controversies that involve some states in the region.

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Authors: Carlos Schmidt Arturi, Guilherme Ziebell de Oliveira, Mariana Falcão Chaise

The main goal of this paper is to analyze two SSR attempts in African countries that underwent political transitions from authoritarian political regimes: Nigeria, where the reform efforts began in 1999, after the election of Olusegun Obasanjo, and Tunisia, after the demonstrations that resulted in the fall of Zine Ben Ali in 2011. The efforts of this article will focus on two fronts. The SSR processes will be analyzed in what refers to (i) the contexts immediately preceding the proposition of the reforms, seeking to identify the main political actors involved; (ii) the proposed policies reforms; (iii) the observable results; (iv) the external actors (donors) involved. Concurrently, the security context during the proposition and implementation of the reforms should be analyzed. The paper's hypothesis is that in these two countries, where the security forces played and still play a fundamental political role, levels of resistance to Security Sector Reforms will occur due to the maintenance of these actors' influence and especially to security imperatives. Despite the holistic vision of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 2007) about the composition of a security community, this paper seeks to analyze only reforms at the Armed Forces, police, intelligence services and the services responsible for the monitoring of these institutions. In addition, preliminary conclusions will be sought since the processes are still in progress.