The Effect of U.S. National Interests on Arms Transfer Decision Making in Brazil.

Abstract

This thesis examines the effect of United States national interests on foreign policy toward Latin America. specifically, it concerns the decisions to transfer or deny arms to Brazil and the influence the human rights policy had on those decisions. various theories on the concept of the national interest are provided, as are citations of both U.S. and Latin American policy makers on their respective countries' interests. Conditions conducive to arms transfer are described for both the United States as supplier and Latin America/Brazil as recipients. The status of Brazil's own arms industry is described to exemplify its self-determination as affected by the desire to break away from what they perceive to be a paternalistic United States. The thesis concludes that the arms transfer relationship between Brazil and the United States is significantly influenced by U.S. national interests. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136836

Entities

People

  • J. D. Mura

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Commerce
  • Economic Systems
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Systems
  • Second World War
  • South America
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • United States Southern Command
  • Ussr

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

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