Relações Brasil-Argentina em matéria de política nuclear: a criação da ABACC e a alteração do dilema estratégico

Abstract

The bilateral relationship of Brazil and Argentina in nuclear matters was guided by the perception of the existence of a security dilema in the regional context. The stories of the nuclear policies of both countries are interrelated since their conception. The rapprochement that occurred in the 1980s was the result of a long process of confidence building, which entails the transformation of the stategic context from a prisoner’s dilema game to a deer hunt game. The creation of an institucional mechanism that monitors and guarantees the rules, in this sense, was the product of overcoming bilateral uncertainties and distrust. The Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) has shown significant results in the behavior of states and enabled Brazil and Argentina to apply their international insertion strategy in the 1990s, in a manner that was less conflicting with international pressures and less detrimental to their traditional argument for the peaceful development of nuclear technology. Over the past 28 years, ABACC’s institutional design has proven successful in safeguarding Brazil and Argentina’s bilateral nuclear commitments.