INSTITUTO CULTURAL MINERVA INSTITUTE OF BRAZILIAN BUSINESS AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT ISSUES - IBI THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

The second phase in the collapse of Soviet military power was the result of the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself and the break-up of the military establishment along the lines of the former Soviet republics, which become newly independent states. [...] As Adam Roberts said: "International law and society are still caught propounding contradictory principles: on the one hand, the sovereignty of states and non-intervention in their internal affairs, and on the other hand human rights; on the one hand the equality of states, and on the other the special privileges of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (. [...] Their multilateral bodies, such as the IMF and the World Bank, have adequate tools to articulate the economic interests of states in the developed world to intervene in the economic development of the developing world. [...] It means the ability of the "United States to protect its own economic prosperity and to shape the international economic environment to the advantage of most of the U. [...] Brazil faces the same influences that all other Latin American countries face: a) the end of the hemispheric security paradigm that existed during the Cold War; b) the political power of the Armed Forces was diminished with the democratization of society; and c) the redefinition of US hegemony.