Revista Conjuntura Austral

11-26

Authors: Carla Maria Morasso

The aim of this paper is to examine the initiatives developed by the government of South Africa to be part of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and identify their interests in the group. South Africa intends to strengthen its role as a regional power in Africa and, at the same time, it wants to have the status of an emerging country. The external policy of South Africa lies in a new phase of challenges from the consolidation of itself as an average power, and if it is added to the group, it can contribute to goals in the current international scenario.

41-61

Authors: Camila Feix Vidal

The paper aims to analyze the Brazilian leading role in mediating with Iran in 2010, that would culminate with Tehran Declaration, through a study about Lula’s Brazilian diplomacy. Through literature, documental and content review, it seeks to infer that: the Brazilian leading role in the case of mediating with Iran reflects both, rooted and typical patterns of Brazilian diplomacy (“accumulated history” for Amado Cervo, 2008), and the new factors, characterized in Lula’s and Celso Amorim’s own assertive external policy. The Tehran Declaration was only possible because of this combination of tradition and innovation that we can find in Lula’s Brazilian diplomacy.

81-94

Authors: Jeane Silva de Freitas, Sibelle Silva Macedo

The regional systems existing have an independent judicial system based on treaties, which removes the possibility of controversy regarding the effectiveness of their decisions. This study aims to analyze Human Rights at the regional states, especially the European System, the Inter-American and African, pointing his advances and challenges.