Autonomia pela distância e participação - o regime de não-proliferação nuclear e o TNP na política externa brasileira

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the arguments for resistance to and adherence to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, an instrument of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, in the light of the Brazilian Foreign Policy. The guiding thread of the analysis will be to observe the nuclear program within the main periods related to the resistance to the treaty, called autonomy by distance, and to its adhesion, called autonomy by participation, the external conditions of the International System, as well as the strategy of governments concerning they adopted to face it and thus pursue their interests. We admit the perspective that the Brazilian Foreign Policy is rooted in a perennial search to develop the country, this character will not be unravelled in the following military regime or civilian governments, it is necessary to verify the international framework and its transformations in order to reach a conclusion on the posture adopted by foreign policymakers with respect to the NPT.