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32. South American Perspectives for Future Cooperation on Security Architecture: Arrangements, Processes and Challenges
- Author:
- CEBRI
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- The Forte de Copacabana International Security Conference is a joint Euro-Brazilian project organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in partnership with the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) and supported by the Delegation of the European Union to Brazil. The conference is conceived as a forum for dialogue between South America and Europe. It aims to bring together experts from a wide range of government, academic and private-sector backgrounds to discuss current security-related issues which are of interest to the partners on both sides of the Atlantic. Since its inception in 2003, the conference has emerged from a relatively small gathering to Latin America’s largest security forum to date. The topic of the 14th edition of the conference is ‘Security Architecture: An Exchange between South America and Europe’. The conference is open to the public and the audience is encouraged to actively engage in discussions. As an innovation in 2017, this collection of Policy Papers reflects the major themes of the event and intend to identify challenges as well as make policy recommendations for the future. Previous volumes of the Forte de Copacabana International Security Conference publication can be accessed on the KAS-Brazil Office website
- Topic:
- International Cooperation and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- South America
33. The Global and European Security Order during the Crisis: Power, Institutions, Principles
- Author:
- CEBRI
- Publication Date:
- 11-2017
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- The international order is currently undergoing a fundamental change and it is evident that this phase that has been lasting since the end of the East-West conflict is almost coming to an end. This change is associated with side effects which many observers perceive as destabilizing, as well as with a great uncertainty concerning which new order will replace the so far established one and what effects this will have. This situation is easy to understand, as far as the history of international relations can be used to identify numerous epochal watersheds related to regulatory governance that have not been peaceful, but instead whose side effects have rather been inter-state wars. One should think, for instance, of the rise in political power of the German Reich at the beginning of the twentieth century, or the phase immediately after the Second World War, when the East-West conflict emerged as a determining force for a period of almost four decades.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
34. The South American Capabilities against Cyber Threats: From the Current Weaknesses towards a Common Response
- Author:
- CEBRI
- Publication Date:
- 08-2017
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- The Regional Security Architectures are challenged by the emergence of this new and enlarging space, whereas relationship, communication and operation are also new. In the cyberspace, the States’ empowerment is a complex matter and even if they succeed in doing so, they must resort to advanced technology. If we try to answer if South America has enough capacities against cyber threats, we necessarily must know what steps were given in each country. Integration is a pending debt in the sub region and it does not differ from a superior reality
- Topic:
- International Affairs and Cybersecurity
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
35. The European Capabilities against Cyber Threats: Strengthening IT Security in Germany
- Author:
- CEBRI
- Publication Date:
- 08-2017
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- the Digital Agenda, in 2014 the German Federal Government proposed, within the framework of an IT Security Law, to strengthen IT security by expanding partnerships with critical infrastructure providers and by creating legal requirements, in addition to introducing an obligation to report significant incidents in the IT area. Germany was a pioneer with the IT Security Law in 2015.3 Through this law, critical infrastructure providers are required to ensure the security of their IT infrastructures according to the latest technology. The sectors concerned (information technology and telecommunications, energy management, food industry, water management, finance, transport and transit, as well as the health sector) have been defined in two regulations of the German Ministry of Interior, considering the quality and the amount of penetration rate achieved by systems, equipment or parts of critical infrastructures. The last regulation came into force at the end of June 2017.
- Topic:
- International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Germany and Global Focus
36. Might and Right in World Politics
- Author:
- Dr Jans Woischnik
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- In the last decade of the 20th century, when the Cold War came to an end, there was a growing understanding that International Law was consolidated as legitimation body for state actions. It was the beginning of a new peaceful world order, the world hoped that an old problem of geopolitics could finally be fully addressed by the International Law, a problem which the Athenian General Thucydides observed already more than 2000 years ago, according to which in the realm of the international, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”. In this new world order right was supposed to finally come before might.
- Topic:
- International Relations and International Affairs
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
37. The role of Brazil in multilateral disarmament efforts
- Author:
- Sérgio de Queiroz Duarte
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- This article examines Brazil’s motivations, objectives, and action in international instances related to nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control, particularly the Treaty of Tlatelolco and the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The paper describes the evolution of Brazilian attitudes and decisions and discusses prospects for nuclear disarmament opened by the proposal of a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, Nonproliferation, Multilateralism, and Institutions
- Political Geography:
- Brazil and South America
38. Grand Strategy and Peace Operations: the Brazilian Case
- Author:
- João Paulo S. Alsina Júnior
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- This article aims to contribute to the analysis of Brazilian grand strategy and the place of UN peace operations (POs) in the context of this strategy. It deals with the political economy of POs and grapples with the trends of POs in the recent past, especially the increasingly robust mandates of peace operations and their implications. Brazilian participation in peace operations is discussed, focusing on its main characteristics and the consequences of an absence of consensus on the role of POs for the country´s grand strategy. Finally, suggestions are proposed that might create synergies between participation in POs and Brazil´s grand strategy.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Defense Policy, Grand Strategy, and Peace
- Political Geography:
- Brazil and South America
39. The South American Defense Council: the Building of a Community of Practice for Regional Defense
- Author:
- Marina Gisela Vitelli
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- While the South American Defense Council has been analyzed as a security community, we argue that it is best described as an early stage community of practice, since it has successfully set in motion a regular interaction dynamic between numerous defense actors, as we demonstrate with concrete examples. We further discuss political support as a prerequisite for regional defense identity.
- Topic:
- Security, Diplomacy, and Regional Cooperation
- Political Geography:
- South America
40. Brazil’s Nuclear Submarine: A Broader Approach to the Safeguards Issue
- Author:
- Eugenio Pacelli Lazzarotti Diniz Costa
- Publication Date:
- 12-2017
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
- Institution:
- Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
- Abstract:
- The article discusses the issue of nuclear-propelled submarines as a nuclear non-proliferation question, addresses the issue of safeguards procedures and arrangements, and suggests a broader, political approach to allay international concerns. Such safeguards arrangement would set the precedent for future arrangements, and particularly if integrated into a more comprehensive approach, might strengthen Brazil’s hand in nuclear negotiations, including on disarmament.
- Topic:
- Nuclear Weapons, Nonproliferation, Maritime, and Submarines
- Political Geography:
- Brazil, Argentina, and South America