Amazônia Azul e área de busca e salvamento: avaliação dos projetos da Marinha do Brasil para assegurar os interesses nacionais nesta região

Abstract

Since the beginning of human history, maritime spaces were useful to get food, way to transport people and goods, or as a source of wealth, resulting in expression of power and consequent conflicts to its dominance. Analyzing a broad issues related to the sea, this study aims to evaluate the extent to which the Brazilian Navy projects, circumscribe only getting ships, are able to ensure national interests in these Brazilian maritime spaces, which includes the Blue Amazon and its Search and Rescue Area. Thus, it studies the important historical facts underlying geopolitical theories, which, in turn, confirm the perennial relevance of the use of the sea by the coastal States. Afterwards, approaches to the conformation of the Brazilian maritime borders resulting from international conferences on maritime law. Then it analyzes the potentialities and wealth of this area jurisdictional maritime, for, aware of those physical and economical dimensions, it delves studies to confirm that maritime spaces should assume increasingly important role in national geopolitics. In the next phase and after being reduced to the defense side, checks for the national high-level documents that cover the maintenance of Brazilian interests in this macro-region, noting that National Defense Policy, the Defense White Paper and the National Defense Strategy there are consistent areas related to the subject. Finally, based on doctrinal aspects, it measures how much of the Brazilian Navy projects are able to preserve the sovereignty in the Blue Amazon and to fulfill its international commitments on the Search and Rescue Area country’s responsibility.