Revista Conjuntura Austral

4-21

Authors: Thomaz Napoleão

The current article does not unravel this conceptual debate, but reviews and interprets the main landmarks of international engagement – in its military, civil and diplomatic facets – in Afghanistan since the deposition of the Taliban regime. Didactically, we identify four stages in this unfinished process: a moment of illusory stability (2001-05); a stage when the Taliban uprising intensified (2006-08); the apex of the conflict, under the sign of the counter-insurgency strategy (2009-11); and the current challenges of the military transition and of the political reconciliation (2012-14). Finally, we will think over the impact that the Afghan War may cause upon the multilateral statebuilding exercises.

32-48

Authors: Érico Esteves Duarte

This article seeks to provide a critical appraisal of the last Iraq War (2003-2010). It focuses on the change in the warlike aims of this war. Its time frame is the increase of the effective – surge – in conjunct with the changes in the strategy conduct since 2007.

70-85

Authors: Paulo Ricardo Diniz Filho

The current article evaluates the results of “bureaucratic insulation” as a course of action adopted by the Foreign Relations Ministry (MRE) within the brazilian federal administration. The total share of the federal budget received by the MRE between the years of 2000 and 2011 is taken as the measure of success achieved by the “bureaucreatic insulation” strategy.

98-101

Authors: Luciano Vaz Ferreira

Book Review: "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Handbook"

4-17

Authors: Mariana LLano, Detlef Nolte, Cordula Tibi Weber

This article analyzes the political events that occurred in Paraguay in June 2012 as well as its implications for the future of the country. It also evaluates the position of neighboring countries, MERCOSUR, UNASUR and OAS over the Paraguayan political crisis.

33-47

Authors: Bruno Hendler

The article examines the Chinese foreign policy for Iran. Its hypothesis is based on China’s intention to use the growing Iranian regional influence as a tool for hard and soft balancing on US interests in the Middle East, accordingly to Robert Pape’s concept of balance of power.

69-93

Authors: André Luiz Reis da Silva, Luiza Salazar Andriotti

The present paper has the objective of analyzing the South-South cooperation developed during the Lula government within the framework of the transformations occurred in the recent Brazilian foreign policy. First, the concept of South-South cooperation is discussed and also its importance for the international insertion of the country. Afterwards, it analyzes the priorities and the projects aiming the developing countries, as well as it studies the case of the “horizontal cooperation” promoted in the IBAS scope. The principal hypothesis is that South-South cooperation developed during the Lula government has a flexible character, adapted to the multiple realities of the developing countries. Way further than the dimension of solidarity, the South-South cooperation of the Lula government had a pragmatic character, may that be used either to reinforce its strategic partnerships, to enlarge its presence in a diverse number of regions, or to expand its commerce.

99-102

Authors: Pedro Henrique Carvalho

O Enigma do Capital e a vigésima segunda obra do destacado geógrafo inglês David Harvey. Esta apresenta uma síntese das suas ideias acerca da acumulação e fluxo de capital; além de formulações críticas e progressivas de ideias acerca da forma pela qual a sociedade cria e sustenta suas "crenças" através de um modo social de produção. O texto que segue procura apresentar os principais argumentos do geógrafo inglês e indicar uma interpretação segura sobre a obra vigente.

7-16

Authors: Cíntia Vieira Souto

This review aims to explain the recent impeachment of president elected in 2008 Fernando Lugo by Paraguayan Congress, and evaluate the consequences of this change in Paraguay relations with Brazil.

34-44

Authors: Fabrício Henricco Chagas Bastos, Fabio Metzger

The impeachment of President Fernando Lugo in Paraguay brought to the table questions that are directly related to the Brazilian political position in South America. In this brief analysis, we seek to analyze the challenges faced by Brazil from the perspective of the events triggered by the Paraguayan crisis.

54-71

Authors: Isaias Albertin de Moraes, Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa Mattos

The article proposes an analysis on cooperation in the biofuels sector between Brazil and Africa during the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva(2003 – 2010). Besides that the study sought list the major projects, treaties and memorand asigned by Brazil, aiming to promote renewable fuels in Africa.

84-102

Authors: Paulo Fagundes Visentini, Guilherme Ziebell de Oliveira

This article analyzes Peruvian foreign policy, from the 1980s to the present day. After a historical introduction, we develop an analysis of the prospects of the government of Ollanta Humala, elected in 2011. Moreover, we analyze Peruvian bilateral relations with Brazil, the USA, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia and the regional integration under the Peruvian perspective (mainly related to the UNASUR, to the Andean Community and to drug trafficking combat). We can conclude that the Ollanta Humala government presents a clear reading of the scenario changes that have been presenting themselves, managing to better take advantage of the relations with the two axes of possible partnership.

4-10

Authors: Bernardo Wahl Gonçalves de Araújo Jorge

This paper deals with the incident involving the company Stratfor and the hacker group Anonymous, an episode of cybersecurity, aiming to reflect on the implications of cyberspace for international relations.

26-42

Authors: Cristian Lorenzo

This article focus on Argentina foreign policy on biofuels in 2008 Food and Agricultural United Nations (FAO) Conference. To do this, we examinated during 2004- 2008 its international historical context and FAO financial system, both as structures.

61-85

Authors: Anatólio Medeiros Arce, Marcos Antonio da Silva

This article aims to show that the Venezuela’s adhesion to MERCOSUR has the result more perceptive from bilateral relation with Brazil. In an economic point of view this context has been realized in different sectors of economy like energetic, commodities exchange, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) because the trade exchanges diversification are deeper between Venezuelans and Brazilians than among other countries. Therefore, the Argentina intention, supporting the Venezuela adhesion in MERCOSUR to reduce the Brazilian preponderance, take another direction because the Brazil will be one of the most beneficed with the new partner insertion. Nowadays Venezuela already has the second positions among the Brazil’s partners in South America.

4-13

Authors: Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo

The goal of this article is to present an initial overview of 2012 US Presidential elections, discussing the Republican Party primary election process, suggesting hypothesis regarding the definition of the Republican candidate to the White House and the general challenges facing President Obama ́s reelection.

24-38

Authors: Eduardo Munhoz Svartman

This paper investigates the topics that reveal disagreements and convergences in defense and international security policies in Brazil and the United States. Assessing the chances of friction between the two countries, one argues that the documents which makes public both countries strategies reveal important changes in the guidelines issued by each country to the other and that, despite ambiguities and mismatches, since 2010, there is more discursive space from U.S. to Brazil set agenda and negotiate his strategic interests.

58-69

Authors: Bruno Gonçalves Rosi

Dilma Rousseff’s foreign policy emphasizes the need for reform of the Security Council of the United Nations in order to better represent the international system, improving democracy and legitimacy to the operation of this body. This article questions this procedure, considering that such reform will hardly bring the results mentioned.