Book Review: "Arab spring, Libyan winter"
Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 21
Abstract
Resenha do livro "Arab Spring, Libyan Winter", de Vijay Prashad
Authors and Affiliations
Guilherme Ziebell de Oliveira
A UNASUR strategy for mining and development
The article analyzes the conditions under which the UNASUR could facilitate a regional strategy for the use of mining for development. Necessary conditions for this are the strengthening of states’ capacities of states t...
The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVS) in the UN Peace Operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
From 2013, the United Nations (UN) introduced the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) on the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO). The paper uses the deploymen...
Beyond the Shanghai Spirit? The foreign policies of Russia and China and soft balancing
The objectives of this paper are to analyze the main factors driving the foreign policies of Russia and China in the contemporary world and explain why both decided to support the creation and development of the Shanghai...
The interests of South Africa as BRIC
The aim of this paper is to examine the initiatives developed by the government of South Africa to be part of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and identify their interests in the group. South Africa intends to...
Regional threats and defense cooperation: studie about South America
The objective of this article is to understand the role of threats to regional defense cooperation, using as an empirical case the South American region, especially the CDS-UNASUR. Threats are elements capable of uniting...