The role of strategic partnerships for the development of the Brazilian Defense Industrial Base

Abstract

The National Defense Strategy (END) conveys the necessity for technological development through strategic partnerships, allowing for development and transference of sensible technology to the brazilian Defense Industrial Base (BID). Certain advances are still unattainable to Brazil in an autonomous manner, therefore the need for the establishment of strategic partnerships, which possess deeper bilateral relations as the main objective. The present work proposes to analyze two strategic Brazilian programs in progress in the scope of the Armed Forces, being: The Project F-X2, and Guarani. In order to guide the analysis and achieve the objectives, the concept of Great Strategy is used along with the Theory of Structural Power and the Neoliberal Institutionalism. As a methodology, case studies are utilized; to later arrive at the general conclusions on the benefits of the defense cooperation to the national BID.