O Brasil, os países da Costa Oeste Africana e a segurança marítima mo Atlântico Sul: cooperação da Mariha do Brasil na segurança marítima do Golfo da Guiné

Abstract

Maritime security in the South Atlantic, especially in the Gulf of Guinea, has been hampered primarily by acts of piracy and because it is happening in the strategic Brazilian environment, the Brazilian Navy can cooperate to maintain security in the region. The relevance of the theme is based on how the Brazilian Navy will cooperate in maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea. The objective is to contextualize the importance of the South Atlantic and the Gulf of Guinea for Brazil, to identify the illicit activities that occur in the region, their causes and consequences, and the way West African countries have coped to combat maritime insecurity. The case study aims through the Safety Community Theory to find that regional and internationalorganizations are organized and effective ways to deal with the problem of maritime safety. As a result, the Brazilian Navy can cooperate bilaterally with the Gulf of Guinea countries, as has already been done, and in a multilateral manner be a vector of Brazilian foreign and defense policy in contributing to local maritime security. It is concluded that the Brazilian Navy can cooperate with the Gulf of Guinea countries in the area of hydrography, with more frequent presence of ships on the west African coast and sharing information on maritime traffic in the South Atlantic and technical cooperation. African regional traffic control centers, stressing that all the actions to be undertaken need constant financial support, as well as the alignment between foreign and defense policy