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The public, regular presentation of defense policies is one of the cornerstones of democratic governance. It allows the international community to better understand Brazil’s intentions and choices. Domestically, it expresses part of the system of checks and balances of civil-military relations. It also outlines how Brazil’s defense establishment and expenditure could contribute to national development. […]

The South American Union of Nations (UNASUR) has been the most important institutional framework for political dialogue on security matters in the subcontinent for the 20th Century. Ever since their creation in 2008, UNASUR and it’s Defense Council (SADC) quickly prompted several analyses regarding its promises and positive results within their first years. Nonetheless, since […]

The literature about UNASUR South American Defense Council (CDS) divides itself by pointing distinct reasons that may explain what led Brazil to suddenly change its traditional posture on defense cooperation, from a preference for hemispheric or bilateral model to a regional approach. Among the preferred lines of explanation, political discourse suggested that Brazil intended to […]

Considering the fact that the direct violence has been increasing recently in the current international scenario, it is far from being unreasonable to pursue a more relevant insertion within the international scene by increasing the participation in peace operations, especially those led by the United Nations (UN). This is precisely what Brazil does. The country […]

Em abril, o Conselho de Segurança aprovou o fim da Missão das Nações Unidas para Estabilização do Haiti (MINUSTAH), a qual, depois de treze anos, retira-se gradualmente do país encerrando oficialmente suas atividades em 15 de outubro de 2017. A MINUSTAH, comandada militarmente pelo Brasil desde seu princípio, representou a maior contribuição do país para […]

Desde a criação do Conselho de Defesa Sul-Americano da UNASUL (CDS), um dos objetivos buscados oficialmente pela organização é a criação de uma identidade comum de defesa. Este audacioso objetivo vem suscitando questões como, por exemplo, se a América do Sul caminha para se tornar uma comunidade de segurança. Porém, ao mesmo tempo em que […]

The article Grand Strategy and Peace Operations: the Brazilian Case, published in the special issue of Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional entitled International Security and Defense - Taking stock of Brazil’s changes (Volume 60 - N. 2, 2017), intends to answer the following question: how does the participation in UN peace operations (POs) is inserted […]

The South American Defense Council (SADC) has received a lot of attention from security and defense analysts, from both skeptical and enthusiastic perspectives. While the latter is based on the region’s significant record in terms of the peaceful resolution of disputes, the low level of tensions, and the early creation of mutual confidence measures, the […]

The main argument from this research point out that security governance in South America functions on dichotomous lines and that analysis of security practices of Brazil is a case in point. On the one hand, scholars point out the balance of power and hegemonic institutions as the main discourse in the security practices between Brazil […]

Brazil has become a full member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty — NPT — and has been very active within this field, like in the Review Conference of 2000, when the New Agenda Coalition submitted and approved the “13 Practical Steps on Nonproliferation and Disarmament”. Brazil also came to participate in the Nuclear Suppliers Group — […]

Editorial International Security and Defense - Taking stock of Brazil’s changes: a special issue of RBPI, by Eugenio Pacelli Lazzarotti Diniz Costa & Antônio Carlos‌ Lessa; Articles Brazilian Hybrid Security in South America, by Rafael Duarte Villa Brazil’s Nuclear Submarine: A Broader Approach to the Safeguards Issue, by Eugenio Pacelli Lazzarotti Diniz Costa The South […]