U.S.-Brazil Cooperation: Working Together to Shape the Global Strategic Environment

Abstract

U.S.-Brazil relations have been characterized by friendship for the past two centuries. The two main powers in the Americas have had more similarities than differences in their history, geography, formation of people, beliefs and political values. The U.S. remains the only superpower, but has been facing many challenges in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous international scenario. Brazil is consolidating its growth, leading the country to a more significant role on the world stage. This paper reviews the history of U.S.-Brazil cooperation, the major pillars of Brazilian foreign policy and the main aspects of U.S. foreign policy, and presents opportunities to enhance cooperation between the two countries. This paper concludes that the two countries can expand their historic cooperation by strengthening convergences and building complementary forms of activity to shape a more favorable global strategic environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA590276

Entities

People

  • Rodrigo P. Vergara

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Climate Change
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Intellectual Property
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Market Economy
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Natural Gas
  • Teamwork
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
  • Strategic Security Studies