Argentinas involvement in strategic projects os nuclear scope of Brazils national defense strategy and the construction of strategic identity (2003-2012)

• Grant number: 16/05449-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): June 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Samuel Alves Soares
• Grantee: Adriane Gomes Fernandes de Almeida
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project analyzes the relations between Brazil and Argentina, in the realm of Defense and International Security, from the perspective of strategic identity between both countries. Comprising the period from 2003 to 2012, the main objective is verify the level os Argentinas involvement in strategic projects of nuclear scope of Brazilian Defense, having as background the study of the transition of Brazilian-argentine relations from the degree of rivalry to a friendship identity. Therefore, there will analyzed the Brazilian and argentines political projects about national Defense, the international acts signed and the specialized bibliography, based on documental analysis with historical method, aiming to get a large view of the bilateral relations.