Reflections on Brazil and the Pan-Amazonian challenges

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study the interactions of regional and international pressure on the Pan-Amazon, a region considered strategic for Brazil. Its importance lies in multiple fields, with emphasis on the environment and the economy. Two perspectives, although not incompatible, reveal themselves difficult to harmonize, especially when it converges to the exploitation of natural resources in the Pan-Amazon and the exercise of national sovereignty over their territories. But the thematic scope of the article is even wider, since one of the main objectives of the study is to try to articulate the environmental and economic issues related to the Pan-Amazon with policy issues related to regional security and national levels around the Brazilian Amazon, assuming that the issue is even more complex when contemplated in its regional dimension. Finally, we carried out an exercise on scenarios involving the Pan-Amazon at both the regional and the international levels.

environmentalism; illegal drug trade; Pan-Amazon