The deep changes that occurred in the international system with the end of the Cold War provoked the revision of theirs patterns, mainly the hemispheric collective security parameters based on mechanisms that aimed at assuring the security of the member states by means of inherent right of individual or collective self-defense. The member states pointed out the necessity of rethinking these arrangements so that the mechanisms could be suitable to face new and diffuse threatens to hemispheric security.
Brazilian foreign policy; hemispheric security; Organization of American States