Ciência e política: a aproximação Brasil-Argentina e a cooperação nuclear no subcontinente (1964-1985)

• Autor(a) principal: Winter, Marcella de Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15601
• topic: Brazilian foreign policy; Argentinean foreign policy; Nuclear cooperation; Military rule in Brazil; Military rule in Argentina; Epistemic communities; Política externa brasileira; Política externa argentina; Cooperação nuclear; Ditadura militar brasileira; Ditadura militar argentina; Comunidades epistêmicas; Brasil - Relações internacionais - Argentina; Argentina - Relações internacionais - Brasil; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA::POLITICA INTERNACIONAL::RELACOES I?INTERNACIONAIS, BILATERAIS E MULTILATERAIS

The overall goal of my research is to understand based on which reasons and by which means Brazil and Argentina have opted for cooperation in the nuclear field during the military rule in both countries. According to the traditional literature of International Relations field, relative gains should be in evidence and, therefore, keep the countries from coordinating its positions in such an important scope for each country strategies of development and international projection - which did not occur in practice. My dissertation aims to understand the reasons why two once rivals became cooperative. From the main purpose derive specific goals, as follows: to launch a new perception of the Brazil - Argentina relations, still seen primarily according to patterns of enmity and mistrust; understand to what extent the motivations of countries in nuclear technology are related to security issues or national development; understand which were the material and ideational foundations that enabled the two countries to integrate and therefore share sovereignty in a matter of high politics; demonstrate that cooperation is not exclusive to democratic regimes; analyze the influence of non-political groups in policy formulation and decision making; prove that there was no arms race in the region or intention to use the nuclear device against one another. The time frame of this study departs from late 1964, when the military regime begins in Brazil, to the year 1985, when democracy is restored in the Southern Cone. The timeframe is not airtight, since there are earlier references to 1964, mainly involving the scientific cooperation, and after 1985, when the Brazilian-Argentine nuclear coordination is elevated to a higher level, with the establishment of ABACC. In an attempt to answer the questions posed, my dissertation is based on the analysis of two main actors: the state and epistemic communities.