Abstract
ABSTRACT This article discusses the ambiguities of Brazil regarding the nuclear area during the administrations of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. To do so, the text uses the speeches of important politicians and members of government bodies to analyze the erratic positioning of Brasília in the face of the commitments made with Argentina since the Quadripartite Agreement (1991) and the founding of the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC). Other source categories used are newspaper articles - Brazilian and international - and confidential files leaked by the non-governmental organization WikiLeaks. Finally, it is sought to evaluate the role of ABACC as an instrument to sustain the Argentinian “strategic patience” within the framework of the sensitive nuclear area.
Highlights
In 2010, Juan Gabriel Tokatlian suggested that Argentines should use the term “strategic patience” to refer to Brazilian ambiguities in the nuclear area[1]
The author’s proposal was quite clear: it was a question of responding to Brazilians in kind since the concept had become so trivial that portions of the business sector, the press, and even Itamaraty reproduced it with a recurrence sometimes exaggerated
This article aims at demonstrating that the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC), founded in 1991, had an essential role in avoiding that the Brazilian ambivalence did not hinder the relations with Buenos Aires, ensuring the permanence of the atmosphere of mutual trust between the partners
Summary
In 2010, Juan Gabriel Tokatlian suggested that Argentines should use the term “strategic patience” to refer to Brazilian ambiguities in the nuclear area[1].
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