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Artigos • Rev. bras. polít. int. 57 (1) • 2014 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201400105   copy

A harder edge: reframing Brazil's power relation with Africa 1 1 This article was made possible during a research period at the Institute of International Relations-University of Brasilia (IREL-UnB) from April to June 2013. The author would like to thank the IREL's grad students and faculty, with special reference to Prof. Alcides Costa Vaz, for all the support shown during his stay. Andrés Malamud and Cláudia Almeida provided invaluable comments to first drafts of this article. Full responsibility over its final content, however, remains with the author alone.

Uma delimitação: reestruturando a relação de poder do Brasil com a África

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Brazil's rapprochement with Africa during the last decade has been mostly explained as an attempt to improve political dialogue, raise economic interactions, and provide technical cooperation assistance. This article, however, argues that such framework does not sufficiently account for the use of Brazilian material resources in order to attain harder strategic goals towards the continent. By focusing on defense cooperation ties, it highlights an important niche in South-South relations that has also grown exponentially, with important consequences on how Brazil exerts power across the Atlantic.

Africa; Brazil; defense cooperation; material resources

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