Building peace: army engineers as an element of the brazilian smart power at MINUSTAH

Authors

  • Felipe Araújo Barros Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército Instituto Meira Mattos http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3935-5082
  • Renata Alves da Costa Instituto Meira Mattos
  • Rodrigo Tavares Ferreira Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército Instituto Meira Mattos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.92891

Keywords:

Peacekeeping, MINUSTAH, BRAENGCOY

Abstract

This article addresses the way the work performed by the Brazilian Engineering Company (BRAENGCOY) produced the soft power needed to convert the action of the Brazilian troops at MINUSTAH into smart power. The study presents a profiling of the Brazilian military power deployed in the mission, represented by the security and stabilization forces, and the way that their actions contributed to show its hard power to the world. Following to this, it analyses BRAENGCOY’s work, with a focus on those who had a direct impact on the Haitian population, which made it exceed its traditional role as a combat power multiplier agent to also became an attraction power producer, a soft power component. Lastly, it was performed an analysis of the engineering jobs characteristics which favored the soft power production, in order to allow the observation of the advantages of the deployment of engineering troops in peacekeeping missions for the attainment of the smart power synergic effect, by the blend of hard and soft power.

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Author Biographies

Felipe Araújo Barros, Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército Instituto Meira Mattos

Especialista em Operações Militares pela Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais (EsAO) e Mestrando em Ciências Militares pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Militares do Instituto Meira Mattos (PPGCM-IMM). Participou de missões paz no Haiti, como oficial de assuntos civis e no Sudão, como oficial de planejamento de engenharia.

Renata Alves da Costa, Instituto Meira Mattos

Mestranda em Ciências Militares (ECEME). Bacharel em Relações Internacionais (Universidade Candido Mendes)

Rodrigo Tavares Ferreira, Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército Instituto Meira Mattos

Especialista em Operações Militares pela Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais (EsAO) e Mestrando em Ciências Militares pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Militares do Instituto Meira Mattos (PPGCM-IMM).

Published

2019-09-30

How to Cite

Barros, F. A., Costa, R. A. da, & Ferreira, R. T. (2019). Building peace: army engineers as an element of the brazilian smart power at MINUSTAH. Conjuntura Austral, 10(51), 61–81. https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.92891

Issue

Section

RESEARCH
Received 2019-05-14
Accepted 2019-07-15
Published 2019-09-30

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