Integração e Segurança no Mercosu : as contribuições político-estratégicas de um Acordo de Segurança Coletiva na Região

Abstract

Refers to the opportunities to increase security that MERCOSUR's current condition as a living organism and present in the population's imaginary can generate for Brazil and the region. Scientifically supported data were obtained on the relevance of a Collective Security agreement between the founding members of MERCOSUR, in order to identify whether its implementation generates contributions to the scope of regional security, as well as whether it meets the Brazilian desires described in its policies. By using theoretical tools from renowned authors with academic support, the study identifies and understands security concepts from their fundamental aspects to their characteristics focused on regionality, which are related to the intended scope, providing a positioning of the region in the face of such theories. The theoretical framework based conclusions on state behavior in the face of social phenomena, which, added to the current MERCOSUR situation, supported the construction of threats and opportunities related to the subject studied, which were the bases for the identification of the desired contributions. After researching historical background, the current socioeconomic situation and the evolution of the organism itself, the relationship between these findings and the indicators of the researched theories was carried out, providing the final conclusions of the work, which consisted of the identification and description of several contributions that a Collective Security agreement provides to Brazil and the founding member states of MERCOSUR, which among many others help the development and increase the existing integration between them