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06/02/2014

Opinion document: Brazil: Security, Defence and Regional Integration.

For many analysts, the Amazon area represents an interesting territory of opportunities: a territory with borders that are difficult to be controlled, where the capacity of a State to exert its national sovereignty meets its limits.
Since the decade of the thirties of the twentieth century and up to now, the Amazon area has been acquiring a raising importance, since Brazil has identified the Amazon area as an element of major impact in the modernization of its defence strategy.
The Amazon area represents a challenge, but it is also a reflection of the difficulties, frailties and contradictions of Brazil as an emerging power.

Author: Marta Ranucci

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