A estruturação do regime hidropolítico platino a partir de uma análise das culturas de anarquia construtivistas: de 1966 a 1979

Abstract

This research analyses the process of construction and consolidation of an international regime based on water use in the Platine Basin from 1966 to 1979. The study seeks to justify how this factor changed the patterns of interaction among states on the region in order to modify the existing logic of anarchy. The discussion about water use begun from the idea of building a hydroelectric project between Brazil and Paraguay after the signing of Ata das Cataratas in 1966. After Argentina's claims on the issue, the debate shifted to the regional level and encompassed all countries covered by Platine rivers towards the foundation of a water regime. When the hydroelectric dispute between Brazil and Argentina ended in 1979, a fact that marked the consolidation of the regime, the Platine region entered in a period where cooperation and friendship arose as prevailing principles in place of the existing rivalries in prior periods. This change of patterns marked the declining of a Lockean culture towards the establishment of a Kantian logic in the Platine Basin.