| Brazil's National Defense Strategy -- A Deepening of Civilian Control |
15-May-2009 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Ham; Linwood Jr; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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 | The Brazilian military dictatorships of 1964-1985 established a national security strategy to modernize the country and populate the vast central and western areas of Brazil. Today's strategy similarly seeks to use the military as a means to advance grand national objectives. Under the leadership of President Luiz Inacio da Silva and Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, elected Brazilian officials will seize the mantle of civilian control of the military and provide ... |
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| Defending the Amazon: Conservation, Development and Security in Brazil |
Mar-2009 |
99 pages |
| Authors:
Alisha E Hamilton; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The struggle between development and conservation remains salient with today's focus on global climate change. This conflict is seen most clearly in the Brazilian Amazon. The international conservation community and developed nations advocate conservation in the Amazon, while developing nations fight for progress. Conservationists expect international organizations, developed nations, and domestic grassroots organizations to pressure the Brazilian government to conserve the Amazon. Development advocates point to the need to stabilize ... |
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| The Brazilian Air Force Health System: Workforce-Needs Estimation Using System Dynamics |
Mar-2009 |
87 pages |
| Authors:
Andraus; Ramez Jr; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The demand for physician manpower is a function of the demand on the entire health care system, which varies as a function of user demographic characteristics. These characteristics differ among countries and may exhibit large imbalances within a country. Demographic imbalances can be found throughout Brazilian society and consequently are present in the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), whose health care system follows a user-driven demand for physicians. Actions resting on ... |
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| Brazil-U.S. Relations |
18-Sep-2008 |
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| Authors:
Clare R Seelke; Alessandra Durand; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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 | On January 1, 2007, Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva, of the leftist Workers' Party (PT), was inaugurated for a second four-year term as President of Brazil. Lula was re-elected in the second round of voting with fairly broad popular support. His immediate tasks were to boost Brazil's lagging economic growth and address the issues of crime, violence, and poverty. Despite President Lula's personal popularity, many predicted that intra-party rivalries within ... |
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| Brazil's Difficult Road to Greatness |
20 MAR 2008 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
David C. Wolfe; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Brazil is an emerging country that has made important strides in consolidating its democracy, constructing a diversified and financially sound economy, and enhancing its diplomatic participation on the world stage. Brazilians have always dreamed of achieving what they believe to be their destiny of greatness. Continuing problems of social inequalities, weak political and social institutions, inadequate education and health systems, and widespread corruption inhibit attainment of that destiny. This paper ... |
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| Brazilian Participation in World War II |
15 DEC 2006 |
94 pages |
| Authors:
Carlos J. Penteado; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
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| This thesis examines how Brazil participated in World War II shoulder to shoulder with the Allies, and what this participation brought to the South American country. During the 1930s, when the relationship between Brazil and Germany was improving each year, and when it was assumed that Brazil would support Germany in case war broke out, Brazilian leaders convinced their country to support the Allied cause. Brazil's support of the United ... |
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| NARCOTERRORISM in Latin America: A Brazilian Perspective |
Apr-2006 |
93 pages |
| Authors:
de Souza; Alvaro Pinheiro; JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIV HURLBURT FIELD FL
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| As the United States continues its Global War on Terrorism it is now looking beyond the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq to consider engaging in other regions where terrorism and attendant forms of lawlessness exist. General Alvaro de Souza Pinheiro builds a case for giving greater attention to the narcoterrorism threat. General Alvaro suggests that security conditions in Colombia and the Tri-Border Area (TBA), where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet, ... |
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| Terrorism in the Iguazu Falls Region: $100 Bills, a DIME at a Time |
31 AUG 2005 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Hugh Smith; ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED MILITARY STUDIES
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| The Iguaza Falls, a once popular international tourist destination in the northeast corner of Argentina, is one of most beautiful places in South America. Located in the Tri Border Area (TBA), which consists of Puerto Iguazu (Argentina), Foz de Iguazu (Brazil), and Ciudad del Este (Paraguay), it is populated with between 12,000 to 40,000 Arabs and their descendants, as well as 30,000 Asians. The area is a lawless zone that ... |
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| Molecular Epidemiology of Epidemic Severe Malaria Caused by Plasmodium vivax in the State of Amazonas, Brazil |
17 AUG 2005 |
330 pages |
| Authors:
Patricia D. Santos-Ciminera; UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIV OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES BETHESDA MD DEPT OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND BIOMETRICS
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| Malaria in South America is a major public health problem. In Brazil, most of the cases occur in the Amazon Region, particularly in the State of Amazonas. In Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, atypical cases of Plasmodium vivax infections, including patients presenting with severe thrombocytopenia and bleeding, led to the hypothesis that severe disease could be related to a particular, emergent, and more pathogenic genotype of P. vivax. The authors ... |
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| A Free Trade Area of the Americas: Major Policy Issues and Status of Negotiations |
03 JAN 2005 |
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| Authors:
J. F. Hornbeck; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| In 1994, 34 Western Hemisphere nations met at the first Summit of the Americas, envisioning a plan for completing a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by January 1, 2005. Nine years later, the third draft text of the agreement was presented at the November 2003 Miami trade ministerial. The Ministerial Declaration, negotiated largely by the two co-chairs, Brazil and the United States, took the FTAA in a new ... |
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| Soft Power and Its Impact on U.S. Influence in Latin America |
DEC 2004 |
97 pages |
| Authors:
Jason W. Cronin; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The role of Latin America in U.S. foreign policy has ebbed and flowed for over 100 years. Over the last 15 years, the relationship between the United States and Latin America has seen a precipitous drop in both cooperation and cordiality. The amicable relationships that the United States once enjoyed with Brazil and Venezuela specifically have become acrimonious. With the United States' increased interest in completing a Free Trade Area ... |
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| Developing a Partnership with Brazil - An Emerging Power |
19 MAR 2004 |
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| Authors:
Douglass Bassoli; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The intention of this paper is to analyze relations between Brazil and the United States of America from a Brazilian perspective as well as the possible future improvement of those relations to a point where the countries can again be considered partners. It is also the intent to provide an accessible text that will help explain Brazil to those policy makers and military leaders who find themselves baffled by their ... |
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| Terrorist and Organized Crime Groups in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of South America |
JUL 2003 |
91 pages |
| Authors:
Rex Hudson; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC FEDERAL RESEARCH DIV
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| This report assesses the activities of organized crime groups, terrorist groups, and narcotics traffickers in general in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, focusing mainly on the period since 1999. Some of the related topics discussed, such as governmental and police corruption and anti-money-laundering laws, may also apply in part to the three TBA countries in general in addition to the TBA. This is unavoidable because the ... |
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| Barrier Patrol and Air Defense System: Developing and Integrating Flight Profiles |
DEC 2002 |
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| Authors:
Luiz A. Bianchi; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| In order to support the Brazilian Air Defense System, principally, in the Amazon region, the Brazilian Air Force has recently acquired the R-99, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) This aircraft and the types of missions it can support are innovative in the Brazilian Air Force, The R-99 will be used for patrolling the Brazilian borders and interception control of illicit air traffic in the Amazon region. This thesis develops ... |
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| Latin American Regional Cooperative Security: Civil-Military Relations and Economic Interdependence |
SEP 2002 |
89 pages |
| Authors:
Chris J. Finocchio Jr; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Regional cooperative security in the Southern Cone has increased since 1980. This thesis examines the extent to which civil-military relations and economic interdependence can account for the emergence or security cooperation by reviewing the reductions in hostilities and increases in cooperation between the two largest Southern Cone countries, Argentina and Brazil, from 1980 to 2000. It examines bilateral security agreements and cooperation, as well as the history, foreign policy initiatives, ... |
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| Brazil and the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in the 21st Century |
JUL 2002 |
62 pages |
| Authors:
Ludovico A. Cunha Velloso; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| Having participated in 23 UN operations, Brazil has a great deal of experience in wide variety of peacekeeping operations. Given the remaining relevance of peacekeeping operations as a consequence of many latent conflicts spread throughout the globe, Brazil's enhanced participation in UN operations, fit does not contribute directly to gaining the objectives established in the current National Defense Policy, at a minimum will help to maintain the prestige of the ... |
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| A Brazilian Security Strategy |
09 APR 2002 |
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| Authors:
Ronaldo Lundgren; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Subsequent to the conclusion of the era of the military regime, the Federative Republic of Brazil has not prepared a formal document which consolidates national security strategies. A wide range of partial and individualized security policies and strategies were and are existent, but they are set forth and published in numerous directives spread throughout Government agencies and departments, ensuring the difficulty of implementing a single, cohesive policy. This project proposes ... |
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| Regional Alliances - Free Trade Area of Americas Agreement |
09 APR 2002 |
35 pages |
| Authors:
Barry Fowler; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| This paper proposes that Washington formulate a foreign policy towards Latin America that is based on economic development and growth. The Free Trade Area of Americas Agreement is the means to achieve this foreign policy goal and will create an economic community of all democratic nations in the Western Hemisphere. The crux of Washington's efforts to bring the FTAA to fruition should be to gain Brazilian cooperation on the agreement ... |
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| Advantages of Application of Electronic Commerce in Procurement for the Armed Forces of Brazil and South Korea |
DEC 2001 |
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| Authors:
Ricardo J. Ribeiro; Jong-Woon Kim; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis examines the prospects for international implementation of E-Commerce (EC) in the contexts of the armed forces of Brazil and South Korea. It describes the functions, roles and infrastructure of EC technology. It weights the advantages and disadvantages of E-Commerce. Particular attention is paid to legal issues, electronic funds transfer and on-line reverse auctions. An E-Commerce implementation plan is presented, benchmarked on the experience of the United States military ... |
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| An Improved Inventory Control Model for the Brazilian Navy Supply System |
DEC 2001 |
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| Authors:
Artur L. Santana Moreira; Giancarlo Cuquel; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Inventory managers in the Brazilian Navy for decades have faced the difficult task of establishing policies and controls to maintain readiness at the highest possible level. The task is difficult because the inventory system contains more than 500,000 items, and many of these items must be procured from overseas. Every year, inventory managers must allocate millions of dollars to buy inventory to support the fleet, and until recently the process ... |
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| Integration of the "Americas" in the 21st Century |
06 APR 2001 |
36 pages |
| Authors:
Milton Guimaraes; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Through a program of comprehensive research and detailed analysis, the paper presents current and proposed steps for the Integration of the Americas in the 21st Century within the time frame agreed to by all of the participants in the last Summit of the Americas held in Santiago, Chile in 1998. Based on the two most successful existing trade agreements in the Western Hemisphere, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, the discussion will attempt ... |
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| An Analysis of Operational Availability of Brazilian Navy and Argentine Air Force A-4 Fleets Using Simulation Modeling |
DEC 1999 |
96 pages |
| Authors:
Marcelo B. Rodrigues; Mario Karpowicz; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis analyzes the impact of reducing transportation cycle time and consolidating aviation electronic component inventory management on the operational availability of the Brazilian Navy and Argentine Air Force AA fleets. The research is based on a scenario where the Brazilian Navy operates twenty A-4 aircraft, while the Argentine Air Force operates thirty AAs, and both countries rely on manufacturers in the United States for depot-level ... |
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| The Challenge of Maintaining or Replacing an Aging Airlift Fleet: A cost/Capability Analysis for the Brazilian Air Force Mobility System |
SEP 1999 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
Julio C. Messias; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH
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| Despite the high Operational and Support costs incurred, the Brazilian Air Force's (BAF) declining budget has led to the establishment of conservative policies that favor short run solutions for a critical BAF airlift problem of operating an aging fleet. As a result of this policy, service life extensions of older airlift aircraft are the preferred solution. Using an equal airlift capacity approach to examine the Brazilian Air Force mobility system, ... |
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| The Scheduling Process in a Depot from the Brazilian Air Force |
JUN 1998 |
77 pages |
| Authors:
fabricio J. Saito; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH
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| The Brazilian Air Force (BAF) in its logistic structure contains 5 Air Logistic Centers (depots). This thesis concentrates its analysis on one of the most important BAF depots located at Sao Paulo (PAMASP). This thesis explores the scheduling process currently used in PAMASP. This thesis adopted a managerial approach in a sense that it looked to take a big picture of the current process. The ... |
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| Cooperation Between Argentina and Brazil: The Political and Economic Determinants |
DEC 1997 |
92 pages |
| Authors:
Paul A. Whitescarver; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The political climate between Argentina and Brazil has changed from one of conflict to one of cooperation. The purpose of this thesis is to explain cooperation between Argentina and Brazil. A single qualitative case study is used to test three competing hypotheses: (1) the transition to democracy by Argentina (1983) and Brazil (1985) promotes cooperation; (2) the external economic environment forces cooperation; and (3) both ... |
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| Aerospace China (Selected Articles) |
09 APR 96 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
NATIONAL AIR INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
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| Selected articles include: Aerospace Organizations in Brazil and Comprehensive Description of their Plans; and Application and Research Status of Aerospace Composite Materials and their Prospects. ANNOTATION: Aerospace China (Selected Articles)--Translation. |
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| The Brazilian Armed Forces Role in Pursuing National Interests |
APR 96 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Carlos A. Cruz; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Brazil is a large country, with a democratic system and a political tradition of an Executive with broad powers. By virtue of the nation's history, the military units are spread throughout the national territory. By law, the Armed Forces (AF) have a double role: national security and participation in domestic governmental activities. This paper displays how the Brazilian AF currently balances the constitutional obligations of security and participation in social ... |
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| Brazil's National Defense Strategy: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century |
JUN 93 |
121 pages |
| Authors:
Kenneth S. Lundgren; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis analyzes the factors that have contributed to the reshaping of Brazil's national defense strategy. It addresses the role of geopolitics, the impact of regional economic integration through Mercosur, renewed nationalism, and the uncertain political realitics facing Brazil in the 1990,s. Further sections review the historical role of the Brazilian armed forces, the fading importance of the Superior War College, the new civil- military relationships, and the concept of ... |
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| Education in Brazil |
APR 93 |
38 pages |
| Authors:
Phillip H. Davidson; INDUSTRIAL COLL OF THE ARMED FORCES WASHINGTON DC
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| Brazil is a sleeping giant in the world community. What is lacking in this country is government support and the will of the people to move forward in pursuing educational excellence. This research paper reviews Brazil's educational system from pre-primary schools through graduate education. Private schooling as well as vocational and technical education are also covered. There is a section that discusses how outside organizations, such as the World Bank, ... |
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| Economic Transition Within Latin America Since 1980--Lessons for a New World Order |
26 MAR 93 |
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| Authors:
Edward P. Boyle; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Between the end of World War II and 1980, the economies of many Latin American countries grew substantially. This growth came to an abrupt halt in the early 1980's. The primary reasons were a sharp decline in world oil and other export commodity prices, heavy government debt burdens, sharp increases in world interest rates which made servicing the heavy debt burden nearly impossible, and structural economic inefficiencies resulting from excessive ... |
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| The United States, Latin America, and the Potential for a Naval and Defense Industrial Partnership: The Case of Brazil |
MAR 93 |
242 pages |
| Authors:
Erik N. Anderson; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The purpose of this thesis is to analyze U.S. security interests in Latin America and examine the potential for a Latin American nation, under a revised maritime strategy, to become both a naval and a defense industrial partner of the United States. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first examines the need to revise the U.S. maritime strategy and makes a case for a greater focus of that ... |
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| The Brazilian Military: Its Role in Counter-Drug Activities |
JUN 92 |
113 pages |
| Authors:
Roy I. Kitchener; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis examines the role of Brazil's military in counter-drug operations. Drug trafficking in Brazil poses a growing threat to the country's national security, but Brazil's physical size and limited resources have hindered the government's counter-drug efforts. The Brazilian military has been reluctant to assume a more significant role in counter-drug operations. The thesis argues that external, internal, and institutional pressures are driving the Brazilian military to expand its counter-drug ... |
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| Security of the Brazilian Amazon Area |
01 APR 92 |
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| Authors:
Paulo C. De Azevedo; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The incalculable resources of the Amazon have been coveted by many countries for a long time. There have been many international pressures on the area, including incursions by foreign powers starting as early as the seventeenth century. Although dissociated from the rest of the Brazilian territory and demographically sparse, Brazil has resisted threats against its sovereignty over Amazonia as well as other attempts at interference in Amazonian affairs by international ... |
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| Brazil, the United States, and the Missile Technology Control Regime |
19 MAR 90 |
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| Authors:
Scott D. Tollefson; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This technical report analyzes Brazil's development of ballistic missiles in light of U.S. pressures to stifle that development. The first section describes and critiques the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR); the second analyzes the U.S. application of MTCR guidelines toward Brazil; the third assesses Brazil's ballistic missile capabilities; and the fourth considers Brazil's response. The report concludes that the U.S. policy of restricting space and missile technology to Brazil under ... |
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| Brazil - the Challenge of Development |
07 MAR 90 |
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| Authors:
Clovis P. Bandeira; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| There is a strong relationship between development and democracy. The American government realizes this when it provides help for the newly democratized East European countries, which are trying to avoid social and political turmoil caused by economic difficulties. The same happens everywhere, especially in Brazil, a large and democratic country facing tremendous economic problems. This study seeks to examine the challenge of Brazilian development, analyzing some of the positive and ... |
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| Report of the Second Brazil/U.S. Workshop on Physical Oceanography Held 18-21 September 1989 at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
21 SEP 1989 |
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| Authors:
Frank O. Smith Jr; NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV DURHAM OCEAN PROCESS ANALYSIS LAB
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| The Second Brazil/U.S. Workshop on Physical Oceanography was a followup to a workshop held at the University of New Hampshire in Aug 1987, at which 5 Brazilian and 25 U.S. physical oceanographers met to present results of work in the tropical and South Atlantic Oceans, identify major scientific questions about that region, and discuss possible collaborative research opportunities. This proceedings presents 24 abstracts of collaborative work conducted in the interim ... |
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| The Role of the Brazilian Air Force in the Defense of the South Atlantic |
MAY 89 |
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| Authors:
Carlos M. Vallim; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| As one of the biggest countries in the South Atlantic region, Brazil has geopolitical, economic, and strategic interests with respect to that ocean. These interests can be threatened by a major maritime conflict in the area, especially if it entails an East-West Struggle as the result of the presence of the Soviets in some African countries. By presenting these interests, the possible threats to them, and the Brazilian strategy for ... |
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| Constitutions and Democratic Consolidation: Brazil in Comparative Perspective |
31 MAR 89 |
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| Authors:
Thomas C. Bruneau; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The Report analyzes the Brazilian experience in formulating a new constitution in 1987- 1988 in comparative perspective with Portugal and Spain. It is demonstrated how the political actors in Brazil participated in the Constituent Assembly in order to ensure their interests in the basic document. Due to the political dynamics of the period and the severe economic crisis, the Assembly was extremely open, or porous, and the resulting document is ... |
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| An Assessment of Brazil's Economic and Energy Problems |
APR 88 |
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| Authors:
Keith D. Hawkins; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Brazil, a large Third World country with significant potential, was well on its way toward entering developed nation status when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) raised the price of oil in 1973. This price rise hit Brazil particularly hard because imports supplied approximately 80 percent of her energy needs. Brazil's problem then became one of how to counter the economically devastating impact of the costly energy imports. If ... |
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| Brazil - An Allied Country? (A Brazilian Approach) |
30 MAR 88 |
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| Authors:
Paulo J. Abreu De Andrade; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| The world is divided nowadays into two areas of influence headed by the United States and the Soviet Union. So, it is important for the leaders of these two blocs to know how to attract countries to their orbits. Brazil has the condition to align with the Western block, but because of several circumstances there has been a progressive distancing from the United States. The reasons for this distancing are ... |
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| Brazil/U.S. Workshop on Physical Oceanography Held on 3-6 August 1987 |
06 AUG 1987 |
59 pages |
| Authors:
Elaine Drapeau; NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV DURHAM OCEAN PROCESS ANALYSIS LAB
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| The first Brazil/U.S. Workshop on Physical Oceanography of the South Atlantic Ocean was held on 3 Aug 1987 at the University of New Hampshire. The workshop resulted from a growing mutual interest in studying a complex and exceedingly interesting part of the world's ocean; its purpose was to broaden Brazilian/U.S. interest in studies of the Brazil Current. Five Brazilians and 25 U.S. physical oceanographers met for four days of interaction. ... |
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| National Labor Administration and Democracy in Brazil, 1985-87 |
JUL 87 |
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| Authors:
Paul G. Buchanan; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Report discusses and analyzes the strategies and structure of national labor administration under the democratic regime installed in Brazil in 1985. It divides the government's approach towards labor relations into internal and external facets, then disaggregates the strategic and organizational dimensions inherent in each. Discussion of labor response to these initiatives is included, and an appraisal of the significance of this interaction for democratic consolidation in Brazil is made. Keyword: ... |
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| Brazil and the US; A Bright Future? |
23 MAR 87 |
50 pages |
| Authors:
Henry G. Anthony Jr; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Brazil is the fastest growing country in South America and is in a position to become a dominant power. The key to Brazil's success has been its spectacular economic progress, but a success that has been dimmed recently by Brazil's struggle with its enormous debt and rising inflation. The Brazilian military is expanding and modernizing and turning its forcus from internal to external defense role. It's emergence as a great ... |
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| Strategic Perspectives on Brazil |
20 MAR 87 |
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| Authors:
Sergio E. Conforto; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| From the examination of Brazilian strategic factors, it is possible to conclude that Brazil as the Teenager country that is, has arrived at the point of its existence when a great future can be foreseen, but doesn't known yet the exact way to get there. Its geographical base allows Brazil to be the medium power that it wants to be as soon as it is able to explore it; but ... |
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| Brazil--On the Road to Greatness |
MAY 85 |
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| Authors:
G. C. Ryser; AIR WAR COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| Since the 1960s Brazil has been on the verge of becoming a nation of considerable power. The country has abundant natural resources and a building industrial capacity. Its natural resource reserves are some of the largest in the world. The country is rich in agriculture potential and is predicted to rival the export capability of the United States within the next few years. Brazil has built a modern military and ... |
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| Brazilian-Argentine Relations in the 1980s: from Wary Rivalry toward Friendly Competition |
MAR 85 |
61 pages |
| Authors:
Wayne Selcher; DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON DC OFFICE OF EXTERNAL RESEARCH
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| Events since 1979 have steadily softened the long-dominant tone of rivalry in Brazilian-Argentine relations and have set up a mutual confidence level and institutional mechanisms sufficient to support greater degrees of cooperation. The mutual understanding, formally established during a landmark May 1980 visit of Brazil's President Joao Figueiredo to President Jorge Videla in Buenos Aires, is attributable above all to a pragmatic perception in both capitals that accumulated and unaddressed ... |
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| The United States and Brazil: Opening a New Dialogue |
1984 |
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| Authors:
R. J. Branco; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC RESEARCH DIRECTORATE
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| Contents: The United States and Brazil: The Past; 'Itamaraty' and Brazilian External Policy; The Brazilian Economy: Boom or Bust?; 'Abertura': The Political Opening; Military Policy Issues; The United States and Brazil: Future Challenges. |
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| Foreign Policy Dimensions of Argentina and Brazill: Emerging Middle Powers Marching to their Own Drum |
DEC 1983 |
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| Authors:
T. J. Lovvorn; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This paper focuses on and compare dimensions of Argentine and Brazilian foreign policy in the international system, coupled with changes in their domestic and regional politics. Both countries have adoped independent foreign policy strategies aimed toward regional and global interdependence. Their pursuit of independent action has tended to ignore United States influence unless it coincided with perceptions of their national interests. These strategies have resulted in marked diversification of contacts ... |
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| The Navy of Brazil: An Emerging Power at Sea (Marinha do Brasil: Um Poder Emergente no Mar) |
1983 |
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| Authors:
Domingos P. C. Branco Ferreira; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC RESEARCH DIRECTORATE
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| Captain Ferreira provides a perspective not available from one of our United States Fellows. Many observers foresee an increasingly influential place for Brazil in international affairs. Is the Brazilian Navy prepared to take on an expanded international role? Captain Ferreira examines the history of his country's navy, analyzes current problems, and suggests directions for future development. He identifies the basic issues facing the Brazilian Navy: overdependence on foreign equipment, lack ... |
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| Area Handbook Series: Brazil: A Country Study |
DEC 1982 |
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| Authors:
R. F. Nyrop; AMERICAN UNIV WASHINGTON DC FOREIGN AREA STUDIES
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| Contents: Historical Setting; The Society and Its Environment; The Economy; Government and Politics; National Security. |
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