Revista Conjuntura Austral

13-28

Authors: Adriane Gomes Fernandes de Almeida

O presente artigo busca analisar como as relações com a Argentina foram tratadas na política externa brasileira, dos governos FHC e Lula da Silva, a partir das respectivas estratégias de inserção internacional. Conclui-se que as diferenças de ambas as estratégias foram acompanhadas de diferenças da importância da Argentina na política externa Brasileira. Contudo, nos dois casos, o país vizinho não se constituiu como uma das prioridades, ocupando um lugar instrumental em relação aos principais interesses de cada governo.

46-61

Authors: Sérgio Luiz Cruz Aguilar, Jéssica Tauane Santos

From 2013, the United Nations (UN) introduced the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The paper uses the deployment of VANTs in MONUSCO to make some considerations about the use of this technology on peacekeeping operations.

83-98

Authors: Fabiano Pellin Mielniczuk, Ana Lisboa

Deploying a Postcolonial perspective, the paper explores the tension between the French universalistic aspiration and the particularistic character of the veiling tradition of Muslin women in France in the debates concerning French laws on the issue. It intends to demonstrate how the denial of difference present in the modern international affects Muslim women in the country.

22-30

Authors: Guilherme Frizzera

From 2016, the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs set up a permanent mechanism for cooperation and dialogue on security and defense. Analyzing the proposed objectives, this horizontalization of Brazilian foreign policy tends to build a common agenda in this area, acting in a cohesive and cooperative way.

48-66

Authors: Vasco Alberto Chemane

The object of this paper are the relations between Mozambique and Brazil, an analytical foray to understand deeply, the integration between the theoretical background isolated from the state of art surrounding the subject, and the concrete actions in the ground, referring to dynamic of respective foreign policy, the main participants or incumbents in the foreign policy definition and implementation and the results, covering the period 1975-2014, in which, was registered a profound change in international anarchic scenario, whit the ending of the cold war and the emergency of neo-realist and neo-liberal paradigms, opening space to bet on in south-south relations, focusing the mutual dependency or mutual benefices of the internal groups involved in the decision making process, and if there is any disparity in the benefices, the same groups promote foreign policy change, through regime change or change in the direction until then followed by the foreign policy, acting by officers, or in process and stages level, concepts around them the paper is developed, in two moments, firstly by currents of thought enrolment about “Foreign Policy”, and secondly carrying out the “Foreign Policy Analyses”, both followed by the case study, as the title.

83-99

Authors: Paula Daniela Fernández, Fernando Gabriel Romero Wimer

This article analyzes the interoceanic canal project in Nicaragua related to Chinese capitals in Central America, recovering some theoretical interpretations of the capitalist dynamics. We also make a historical description of the attempts to open ship canal in Nicaragua, and an analysis of the canal project and its relation with China.

14-27

Authors: Alexandre Checheliski, José Miguel Quedi Martins, Rodrigo Schmidt Rodrigues

O artigo identifica e relaciona os períodos da Transformação Militar com os posicionamentos acerca do emprego do Carro de Combate no pós-Guerra Fria. Objetiva contribuir para o debate acadêmico sobre a importância desse material e para a geração de poder de combate pelo Ministério da Defesa brasileiro.

43-56

Authors: Cristian Andres Di Renzo

En este artículo nos proponemos analizar la importancia de la figura del diplomático, militar y político argentino Estanislao Zeballos. Su producción intelectual, arroja una imagen de la nación argentina, como una comunidad políticamente imaginada, limitada y soberana, definida por conceptos geopolíticos que la diferencian del Brasil y de Chile.

72-87

Authors: Alexander Arciniegas

Este artículo propone algunas sugerencias puntuales en relación con la reforma de la fuerza pública en Colombia de cara al posconflicto. Para ello parte del concepto de Reforma del Sector Seguridad y de su horizonte normativo. Posteriormente, se revisan los aspectos esenciales de la reforma militar emprendida en la década de 2000 tanto en sus fortalezas en el debilitamiento de las FARC como en sus deficiencias en términos de control civil democrático y de respeto de los DDHH. Finalmente, en el camino de superar tales deficiencias y de atender a las necesidades de seguridad del nuevo escenario estratégico resultado de los acuerdos de La Habana, se proponen algunas recomendaciones en el corto y largo plazo para avanzar en un posconflicto más estable y construir una paz duradera.

20-36

Authors: Felipe Ferreira de Oliveira Rocha

According to economic and political arguments, relations between Brazil and Mexico have historically oscillated between agreements and disagreements. In this context, the paper aims to fulfill two objectives. First, to summarize and describe some arguments of the literature on the interactions of both states regarding the exercise of regional leadership. Second, to explore data from Latinobarómetro (from 2013 and from 2015) and thus outline preliminary hypotheses to be tested on future works.

53-71

Authors: Prakash Kona

The article examines the interrelationship between violence and modernity in the South Asian context. A social revolution is neither spontaneous nor is it a carefully planned project with a timeline prepared in advance keeping the political situation in mind. There are objective conditions to be met for any large-scale social transformation; apart from those conditions, the role of human intervention must be emphasized for change to be realized. The central argument of the article is that in the context of mass poverty it becomes imperative for the poor to come together and revolt with the intention of acquiring material gains resulting from economic growth. To what extent do victims of class society feel the need to revolt against their oppressors is an open question. The fact, however, is that there is a potential for revolution built into the nature of the oppression. Where the poor are in a vast majority, there is an authentic possibility that a spark is enough to create a chain reaction leading to changes along various levels. It is important to examine seemingly unrelated situations where a group of people fighting for an immediate cause are able to make their point through organized struggles. The paper examines the South Asian region where colonial contradictions are intertwined with structural inequalities in order to understand what the poor do in the process of revolting against an unequal condition; how they are able to modernize themselves through the use of violence that is paradoxically emerging as a result of a lop-sided modernity.

98-114

Authors: Thaís Vieira de Paula, Marina Oliveira Vieira dos Santos, Thábata Dias Meireles Costa

This article seeks to verify the role of domestic interest groups in shifting the US foreign policy guidelines to Cuba. It is hoped to understand the US domestic perspective on bilateral relations and what was the position of Barack Obama's government regarding the emergence of a possible new policy that would bring relations between the two countries closer together.