El Consejo de Defensa Sudamericano: ¿Instrumento de integración regional o mecanismo para la hegemonía del Brasil?

Abstract

The present paper try to set out the Brazilian initiative of creating a South American Defence Council, that would complete the hemispheric security system of the region in a process of deepening of the South American integration, analysing if the Brazilian proposal would comply with the necessities of the foreign defence through a cooperative security or only would serve to strengthen Brazil as a country with hegemonic desires in the region. Also deals with, if the security notion for the region would have to be focused more in the intra state conflicts and not so much in hypothetical foreign threats.