Em busca do Internacional no pensamento dos militares: um estudo sobre a abordagem da dimensão internacional pelos egressos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Militares (PPGCM/ECEME)

Abstract

This paper aims to identify elements that help defining the military thinking on international policy issues. It is assumed that there are few studies about the international vision contained on military thinking. While there is a great deal of production on the political thinking of these actors, their focus is often on national policy views, the characteristics of society, state management models and economic development, and their own role as guarantors of order and progress. I understand that this apparent gap is evidence of a disarticulation between the dimensions of defense and diplomacy. To achieve the stablished goal, the paper is divided into three chapters. The first chapter offers a brief overview of the general characteristics of military thinking in the twentieth century. The second one discusses about the history of the existing disarticulation between the realms of defense policy and foreign policy in Brazil. The third finally seeks to identify the elements that produce an international view of the Armed Forces nowadays, throughout the analysis of final essays of the Postgraduate Program in Military Sciences of the brazilian Command and General Staff College (ECEME).