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| Author(s): |
Lívia Peres Milani
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Marília. 2019-12-02. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências. Marília |
| Defense date: | 2019-11-04 |
| Advisor: | Sebastião Carlos Velasco e Cruz; Samuel Alves Soares |
| Abstract | |
The thesis’ main subject is the relationship between the United States and Latin America, at the beginning of the 21st century, focusing on the Brazilian and Argentinean cases and security issues. Intense asymmetry of power is the main feature of the Inter-American relations and, therefore, they denote relations between great powers and peripheral countries. Nevertheless, they are also specific, and it is essential to analyze the historical developments to understand the Western Hemisphere international dynamics. The inter-American relations are marked by clientelism – meaning asymmetrical military cooperation - and economic dependency – meaning that the national economies’ dynamics are influenced by external factors. However, this reality was disputed by Latin American governments in different historical conjunctures. Guided by these assumptions, the main question is: why there was, in the Brazilian and Argentina cases, an autonomy project resumption at the beginning of the 21st century and how was it expressed on security issues? As a hypothesis, I argue that the sources of the autonomy projects were the changes in domestic politics and the China inroads in the Western Hemisphere. There was no U.S. negligence towards the region, but the challenges imposed by China were growing, and the United States maintained its capacity to impose costs and incentives to the Latin American governments. Moreover, security cooperation was a source of U.S. influence. The thesis has five chapters. The first one presents the conceptual discussion, the second one briefly presents the historical Western Hemisphere International Relations main themes, and the third one addresses U.S. Foreign Policy for South America in the post 9/11 period. The fourth and fifth chapters analyze the bilateral Brazil-USA and Argentina-USA relations. To conduct empirical research, I used open-source documents from the three countries governments, speeches made by authorities and interviews. I have also taken into account data basis on security assistance and arms transfer from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Center for International Policy. I also used telegrams produced by the US embassies in Argentina and Brazil and publicized by the Wikileaks. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/00661-8 - Argentina, Brazil and the United States: autonomy and alignment in international security |
| Grantee: | Lívia Peres Milani |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |