Continentalization versus Maritimization - the debate within Brazilian School of Geopolitics and its political consequences

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Continentalization versus Maritimization - the debate within Brazilian School of Geopolitics and its political consequences

Original language description

Brazilian School of Geopolitics comprises a debate about whether the country's applied geopolitics should move towards continentalization or maritimization. While revisiting that debate, its authors and arguments, the paper aimed to assess the consequences between those two views and Brazil's recent foreign relations with its neighbor countries (e.g. Argentina), great powers (e.g. the U.S.A.) and particularly Portugal in the position of geohistorical partner. The paper is a qualitative study grounded in the positivist approach. It used the deductive method, proceeding from geopolitical concepts and general abstractions to facts of political reality in respect to Brazil's foreign policy. One of the article's most innovative aspects was to identify some theoretical and methodological flaws in Brazilian School of Geopolitics, from the neoclassical geopolitics point of view. In fact, the line of division between politics in its dynamics of executive power, and geopolitical studies as academic discipline, was deeply mixed in Brazilian School of Geopolitics and that fact was properly identified. Nevertheless, the paper's main result was to try to demonstrate how Brazilian élites' perceptions of space towards 'land' or 'sea', affected by the continentalization vs maritimization debate, has been influencing foreign policy conduct in terms of a preference within the international organizations sphere, a preference for bilateral allies and, by extension, the objectives and the means of action of military power.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

SGEM 2016, BK 2: Political Sciences, Law, Finance, Economics and Tourism Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1

ISBN

978-619-7105-51-3

ISSN

2367-5659

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

89-96

Publisher name

STEF92 Technology Ltd.

Place of publication

Sofia

Event location

Vienna

Event date

Apr 6, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000395726800012