Brasil: inserção internacional e política nuclear no governo Lula

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Lacerda, Vladimir Fernando Messere de
• Orientador(a): Geiger, Pedro Pinchas
• Banca de defesa: Pires, Hindenburgo Francisco , Machado, Mônica Sampaio , Barbosa, Jorge Luiz
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia
• Departamento: Centro de Tecnologia e Ciências::Instituto de Geografia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Globalização; Geopolítica; Brasil; Política econômica; Relações internacionais; Política nuclear
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Globalization; Geopolitics; Brazil; Economic policy; International relations; Nuclear policy
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::GEOGRAFIA::GEOGRAFIA HUMANA::GEOGRAFIA POLITICA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13328

The victory of the Workers Party in the 2002 elections provided Lula's ascension to the position of president of the republic and created expectations of significant changes for the majority of the Brazilian population. Twelve consecutive years of governments with neoliberal tendencies had caused the aggravation of social problems, the submission of the Brazilian economy to the international financial capital and to an external politics linked to northern American interests in general. The nuclear policy in this period represented a good example of that submission. During the government of Lula, there was the pretension to establish a Project that would promote a better insertion of Brazil into an international system in transformation, with the end of the Cold War and the apparent decadence of the northern American power. Albeit the continuity with the precedent governments observed in the political economy of Lula, his external policies seemed to walk towards another direction, more independent and assertive than Cardoso's. In this context, according to the formulators of the policies of the Brazilian government, the utilization of nuclear energy would play an important role. As a holder of the technology of enriching uranium by centrifugation, the country sought to use it as an instrument for its ascension in the global scenario. This research pretends to study the existing relations between Brazilian external policies and the recovering of the nuclear program, so as for its limits in a global order in transformation, where nuclear energy remains an important instrument of Power.