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标题：Brazilian Policy and the Creation of a Regional Security Complex in the South Atlantic: Pax Brasiliana?
其他标题：Brazilian Policy and the Creation of a Regional Security Complex in the South Atlantic: Pax Brasiliana?
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作者：Mattos, Beatriz Rodrigues Bessa ; Matos, Francisco Eduardo Lemos de ; Kenkel, Kai Michael 等
期刊名称：Contexto Internacional
印刷版ISSN：0102-8529
电子版ISSN：1982-0240
出版年度：2017
卷号：39
期号：2
页码：263-280
DOI：10.1590/s0102-8529.2017390200004
出版社：Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
摘要：Abstract Over the past five years, the South Atlantic region has become a central element of Brazilian security policy, with Brazil actively supporting the notion of a trans-oceanic security consciousness involving African littoral states. It has invested in diplomatic initiatives such as the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA, or ZOPACAS), and extensive military co-operation with West African states such as São Tomé e Príncipe, Namibia and Cape Verde. Its internal security and defence policy documents have repeatedly been updated to reflect this dimension, and now provide the foundation for advancing these initiatives. This policy thrust is directed at securing Brazil’s offshore oil assets, and limiting the influence of what it has termed ‘extra-regional powers’ such as the P-5. This article highlights these initiatives and reviews the prospects for this policy by examining the plausibility of the South Atlantic region as a regional security complex in the sense coined by Buzan and Wæver. The analysis is based on the role of geographical and linguistic proximity in international relations, and the impact of multilateral bodies on building support for a regional approach to security governance.
其他摘要：Abstract Over the past five years, the South Atlantic region has become a central element of Brazilian security policy, with Brazil actively supporting the notion of a trans-oceanic security consciousness involving African littoral states. It has invested in diplomatic initiatives such as the Zone of Peace and Cooperation of the South Atlantic (ZPCSA, or ZOPACAS), and extensive military co-operation with West African states such as São Tomé e Príncipe, Namibia and Cape Verde. Its internal security and defence policy documents have repeatedly been updated to reflect this dimension, and now provide the foundation for advancing these initiatives. This policy thrust is directed at securing Brazil’s offshore oil assets, and limiting the influence of what it has termed ‘extra-regional powers’ such as the P-5. This article highlights these initiatives and reviews the prospects for this policy by examining the plausibility of the South Atlantic region as a regional security complex in the sense coined by Buzan and Wæver. The analysis is based on the role of geographical and linguistic proximity in international relations, and the impact of multilateral bodies on building support for a regional approach to security governance.
其他关键词：South Atlantic;Regional Security Complex;Security Communities;South-South Co-operation;South Atlantic Peace;Co-operation Zone