Studying the discourses and the technical- military and technical- police models of cooperation among Portugal, Brazil and Angola

Abstract

This paper aims to show the outcomes of a qualitative research about technical- military and technical- police cooperation among Portugal, Brazil and Angola. The main objective of the research was studying the cooperation through application of bibliographic and documental analyzes. The research had a specific objective of identifying, describing and analyzing the discourses edited by actors of diplomatic, strategical planning and technical operational sectors. After that, the research searched to identify strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats presented by the cooperation. The outcomes highlighted that the actors believe that the mentioned cooperation can be strengthened especially on training and defense´s economy areas despite divergences of points of view verified. They have mentioned also that sharing Portuguese as common language can be an advantage in strengthening the cooperation. They have identified political, financial and scientific asymmetries among the countries as the main threat. For them, engagement in humanitarian missions conducted by United Nations is a good opportunity to the countries and the predominance of individual objectives to contrary to collective ones can be a threat to strengthen cooperation.