A dimensão do Atlântico Sul na política externa e na defesa do Brasil, dos anos 70 ao limiar do século XXI

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Aquino, Edson Tomaz de
• Orientador(a): Resende, Paulo Edgar Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Atlântico Sul; Política externa brasileira; Defesa nacional; Mar territorial; Atlantico Sul, Oceano; Brasil > Relacoes exteriores; Brasil > Seguranca nacional.; Aguas territoriais
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: South Atlantic; Brazilian foreign policy; National defense; Territorial sea
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3950

The main purpose of this work is to show the growing importance of South Atlantic Ocean to Brazil s foreign policy and security issues, from the seventies to 21st century. The oil crises in the early seventies changed brazilian perception about its maritime frontier. The enlargement of territorial sea to 200 miles and a diplomatic approach to Africa were strategic to assure Brazilian interests in the South Atlantic. The central role of Brazil to build the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic stresses the choice to the multilateralism and the international law. This choice results from regional and hemispheric context. In the early 21st century, the international system allows Brazil to drawn a military capability towards its maritime frontier. Economic resources as great stocks of oil could turn the South Atlantic a vulnerable zone to Brazilian interests. Idealism and Realism on foreign politics and defense issues tend to combine themselves on Brazil s projection at South Atlantic