The book presents a comprehensive and original analysis from a Brazilian perspective of both traditional and emerging topics related to the so-called El Dorados of the 21st century: Amazonia and Antarctica. By gathering distinguished scholars, the resulting set of high-level findings, stemming from multiple epistemological standpoints, provides important and innovative insights into the wide-ranging geopolitical impacts of issues concerning these unique strategic ecosystems to the contemporary international environment. The result is a sophisticated response to the following questions: what were, are, and will be the contributions of Brazilian geopolitical thinking on these two themes? Additionally , from this intellectual exercise, how do we interpret the role of Antarctica and Amazonia in shaping the current asymmetrical transnational architecture of power?
Part I: Brazilian Geopolitical Perceptions for Amazonia
Chapter 1: Amazonian Geopolitics of Climate Change - José Antonio Marengo
Orsini and Gilberto Fernando Fisch.
Chapter 2: Environmental Geopolitics and the Amazon in the Context of Hybrid
Warfare: Public Opinion and National Security in Brazil - Rodrigo Augusto
Lima de Medeiros.
Chapter 3: What is Beyond the Amazon Region and the High North? Geopolitical
Perspectives for Brazil in Central America and the Caribbean - Flávio Helmold
Macieira.
Chapter 4: Brazil in the Geopolitics of Amazonia: Reflections on the
Construction of an International Regime - Carlos Alfredo Lazary Teixeira,
Fábio Albergaria de Queiroz and Guilherme Lopes da Cunha.
Chapter 5: The Amazon: Global Change, Environmental, Economic and
Geopolitical Interests of Brazil - Everton Vieira Vargas.
Part II: Brazilian Geopolitical Perceptions for Antarctica
Chapter 6: Antarctica in the Brazilian Geopolitical Thinking - Guilherme
Lopes da Cunha, Paulo E.A.S. Câmara, Fábio Albergaria de Queiroz and Ana
Flávia Barros-Platiau.
Chapter 7: Antarctic Science as a Diplomatic, Conservation, Economic and
Geopolitical Tool for Brazil at the Past, Present and Near Future: Heading to
2048 - Paulo E.A.S. Câmara and Luiz Henrique Rosa.
Chapter 8: Scientific Research in the Face of Antarctic Geopolitics: An
Evaluation of the Fioantar Project by Fuzzy Cognitive Maps - Luiz Octávio
Gavião, Adriana Marcos Vivoni and Maria Lucia Marques da Fonseca.
Part III: Connecting the El Dorados
Chapter 9: The Noosphere and Science Diplomacy in Brazil. Connecting the
Policy Networks for the Amazon and Antarctica - Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau;
Carina Costa de Oliveira; Leandra Regina Gonçalves; Andrei Polejack and
Carlos Henrique Tomé Silva.
Chapter 10: Heritage Preservation Policies in Antarctica and the Amazon: A
Comparative Approach - Andrés Zarankin and Marcia Bezerra
Ana Flávia Barros-Platiau is Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia (UnB) and Associate Researcher at the Brazilian Defense College (ESD).
Fábio Albergaria de Queiroz is Adjunct Professor of International Relations and Geopolitics at the Brazilian Defense College (ESD).
Guilherme Lopes da Cunha is Adjunct Professor at the Brazilian War College (ESG) and a Collaborating Professor at the Brazilian Defense College (ESD).
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