Implementação do Conselho de Defesa Sul-Americano: o papel do Brasil de 2008 a 2019

Abstract

For a long time, it was debated about the possible benefits that a cooperative defense agency could bring to Brazil and South America. Until 2008, when the Brazilian State and the other eleven South American countries formalized the creation of the South American Defense Council (SADC), an instance of regional defense consultation and cooperation. In this sense, this work focuses on the Brazilian posture while remaining as a member of this Council. The objective is to analyze how Brazilian characteristics, in geopolitical, economic, military, diplomatic and political terms, would have appeared as benefits, or harms to the effective implementation of the SADC. Thus, this work will use statistical and conceptual data, combining them with normative and factual evidence related mainly to the Brazilian posture in the last decade. In order to achieve that, the work was divided into three parts. In the first part, the environment for the creation and implementation of the SADC will be addressed, as well as the expectations arising from them, focusing on the benefits that such an agency could bring to Brazil. In the next section, it will be analyzed the difficulties encountered on the way to implementing the SADC, focusing on Brazilian characteristics. In the third and last part, the Brazilian stance - and that of other members of the SADC - will be contextualized in terms of advances and setbacks, intending to express a brief projection of what is to come.