Revista Conjuntura Austral

23-37

Authors: Italo Barreto Poty

This article aims to characterize the American grand strategy between 1991 and 2017, verifying changes and continuities in the American foreign policy, with emphasis on the construction of the post Cold War liberal international order. The research methodology consists on the content analysis of primary sources, which are the American government’s official documents entitled in general as National Security Strategy, since the George H. W. Bush administration until Donald Trump, taking a specific approach of topics relative to grand strategy and liberal international order, such as democracy promotion, free market and multilateral institutions, with support of specialized bibliography. Our result is the characteriz ation of the American grand strategy, in which we can observe tactical changes in its foreign policy, oscillating between multilateralism and unilateralism, with the main target of keeping the hegemonic position of the United States.

51-67

Authors: Thiago Godoy Gomes de Oliveira, Lucas Amaral Batista Leite

After the election to the presidency of Donald Trump in 2016, the international debate about nationalism took on a greater importance. The most curious element in the North American case is that the main globalizing agent is now opposing international regimes of which he led the construction. This work seeks to understand how Trump, facing the country's political scenario, sought to instrumentalize and enhance the nationalist sentiment in the countr y in his favor. The research will be carried out by conducting a bibliographic and exploratory surve. It will use public opinion data collected by specialize d agencies, such as Pew Research Center and Gallup, and primary sources, such as speeches, delivered by Trump. The collection of data, together with the analysis carried out, demonstrate that nationalism, historically identified as a term that carries a negative meaning since the post-World War II, gains more space in the domestic sphere and in the foreign policy of the United States. In this dynamic, Trump seeks to explore and enhance nationalist sentiments in the economic, cultural and ethnic spheres.

81-94

Authors: João Estevam dos Santos Filho, Alexander Arciniegas Carreño

With the guerrilla's strategic weakening and the establishment of the peace dialogues between the FARC and the national government, it started a situation of post-armed conflict, which has been accompanied with the transformation of the Colombian armed forces. In this way, the present paper aims to analyze this initiated in 2011, with the objective of identifying the new role that has been delegated to the military in the context of post-conflict that started with the signing of the Havana Peace Accords in 2016. The hypothesis of the paper is that the process, in one hand, has been consolidating the Colombian armed forces as an institution turned to the accomplishment of subsidiary tasks and, in the other, it has contributed to a renewal of the military dependency with the USA, although with different bases in relation to those observed during the Plan Colombia time. The methodolo gy employed in this research consisted of data analysis collected in international databases, analysis of documents from the Colombian government and literature review about military transformation. Despite this process involving the three armed forces (Army, Navy and Air Force), the first one has been more affected, which for this reason it will be more analyzed.