Política externa, desenvolvimento e segurança: o papel do Brasil na missão das Nações Unidas para estabilização no Haiti (Minustah, 2004-2015)

Abstract

The following research takes as premise the idea that Brazil, simultaneously a rising power and an underdeveloped country, holds a broad security approach conditioned to the objective of development. The main objective, therefore, is to outline existing relations among Brazilian foreign policy, national development and security planning. To attain such goal, the research has selected three specific objectives: first, to identify the broad security approach in Lula and Dilma’s governments; second, to explore development’s conditioning over Brazilian security planning; and third, to evaluate how this broad conception has been applied in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Using analyses of direct primary and indirect documentation, in addition to intensive direct observation, the research employed the hypothetical-deductive method in complementarity with the comparative method, synchronic case-study type. In terms of results, it has verified that Brazil pioneers by defending a social approach of security, and that the current international conjuncture favors broad approaches. It also states that, in fact, Brazil holds a broad acting, verifiable in Haiti. Finally, the research also warns for national diplomacy’s need to forearm itself before the possibility of having its speech used for international interventionism.