Geopolitics of Plata Basin and the balance of power between the southern Cone countries

• Grant number: 15/23804-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Wagner Costa Ribeiro
• Grantee: Henrique de Freitas Chimenes Gil
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Geopolitics developed by the Brazilian military thought during the twentieth century, had deep concerns with the action of the Brazilian State in Plata Basin. Golbery do Couto e Silva and Mario Travassos had enormous importance in the actions that Brazil has taken in order to reverse a frame Argentine hegemony in the region, of which the construction of Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant is the ultimate symbol.