The Brazilian Amazon as a resource of power in the international system

Abstract

This research aims to understand how Brazil applies its natural resources, mainly the Amazon, as a bargaining tool within the International System. Due to the increasing awareness about the importance of the environment, its understanding as a fundamental right and the current global environmental crisis, there is a greater concern for the relationship between man and nature and the theme goes beyond national issues. In this scenario, Brazil plays a fundamental role, at first by containing natural resource reserves of great relevance to the International System and foremost because the degradation of its biodiversity would have the capacity to impact the entire planet. In this sense, Brazil is an environmental power and holds power in the International System, however, it is allowing this bargaining instrument to be used in a coercive manner against itself. In order to achieve its objectives, this article employed the inductive method of research through a theoretical basis based on bibliographical and documentary research, based mainly on concepts of power in International Relations and focusing on identifying the Brazilian nature potential as a resource of power and how the country uses its nature in this way.

Keywords: Global Environmental Crisis; Human Rights; Power Resource; International Security.