Aspects of brazilian geopolitics in the vision of General Meira Mattos

Abstract

With the end of the Cold War, the acceleration of the globalization process promoted a multipolarity in International Relations (IR). General Meira Mattos, as military and political cientist has studied the main brazilian issues envolving its development. His concern is about bring Brazil to the same level of development nations in the world. The intellectual always stood out by deep analysis, the military commitment to the country. His literary works have joined lucid evaluation of past, critical view of the present and future preview. Bearing these elements in mind, this paper tried to give a few dimension of the General Meira greatness Mattos’ thought by examining the application of his beliefs in Brazilian reality.