A implementação da proposta do governo Lula (2003-2010) para a área de defesa nacional e seus impactos na política externa brasileira

Abstract

The treatment given to security and defence issues, as well as foreign policies, goes through orientation changes due to the substitution of a new Head of State. Considering the intended change by Lula's government in National Defence policies, the present work aims to discuss how the government's proposal was adopted in this segment. The directions and documents determined by this government were an important methodology instrumental, as well as bibliographic studies from such area. Based on the two-level game logic and on the constructivist theory, this work is divided in three parts. The first one shows the main directions of foreign policy and the actions in the defence field adopted during the FHC government, in order to establish the transition point to Lula's Government. The second part defines the vision imposed by Lula's government for national defence and shows the aspiration of its foreign policy and from the documents elaborated for this government in this sense. The third part describes how Lula's government proposal was used, listing the main actions in the inner and international scenarios. It will be shown that Lula's government undertook changes in the emphasis related to the treatment of security and defence issues and its actions revealed consonance in both national and international scenarios.