Guerra da Malvinas: o impacto geopolítico do conflito no relacionamento entre a Armada da República Argentina (ARA) e a Marinha do Brasil (MB)

Abstract

There are analyzede, by means of traditi onal and new concepts of geopolitics, the special circumstances that surrounded the relations between Argentina and the main developed countries, the United St ates and part of Europe, duri ng the Malvinas War, in order to, based on such conceptual tool, exam, how such episode impacted the Brazil-Argentina relations on South America. The ma in political, tactic and logistic events are desc ribed to help with the analysis. As of this turning point in the South-American hi story, it is used the concept of Mutual Confidence Measures (MCM) to verify how the Brazilian and Argentinean Navies intensified their relations in the new giopolitics milestone agreed upon between both countries. There are described the successful even ts in such approaching policy and politics in five different phases, didactically worked out: two prior to the Malvinas War and three afterwards. This study high lights precisely the three last phases, i.e., the phases after the Malvinas War. In the third phase, there are described, among other aspects, the strategic meetings organized by the EMFA (Brazil) an d the EMCFA (Argentina) at the end of the 1980s; in the forth phase, are hi ghly emphasized the 1990s sinc e this is the period during which most of the MCM succeeded; and, in the fifth phase, already at the turning of the millennium, the current limits of the MCM, that are being adopted, are discussed, as well as the possible perspectives for the future. The first and second phases are the ones still during the beginning and intermediate periods of th e Cold War. These phases are also discussed because they already presented some embryonic MCM policies between the Brazilian and Argentinean Navies, important for the way the events unfolded later on. In the first phase, there are stressed the main episodes that took place under the influence of the US, while, in the second, one can already notice a slight re gional autonomy in the measures adopted.