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Brazil’s maritime strategy in the South Atlantic

by Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Danilo Marcondes

The nexus between security and resources

For Brazil, the state with the longest coastline along the South Atlantic, the discovery of significant deposits of oil and gas in the continental shelf’s pre-salt layers has generated new interests and triggered new concerns. Through bilateral cooperation the Brazilian government intends to build defense cooperation along the South Atlantic’s perimeter. Brazil thereby includes Western African countries in the military cooperation.

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February 15, 2013
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