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This paper presents an approach to comparatively analyze the 38 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in terms of government performance in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, taking as a starting point the essence of intelligence services for national security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes and justifies the need for a law proposition of supervision of controlled products, ensuring the police power to the Brazilian Army, in order to improve the control of arms, ammunition and explosives legal and illegal throughout the national territory. This purpose will be achieved through research and study of cases experienced by the system of supervision of controlled products of the army and of the activities carried out by public security organs. The Brazilian Army is the organ which has the best conditions to perform the supervision of controlled products of preventive and repressive way, because as federal institution is present throughout the national territory and with considerable in all effective States of the Federation. It has close links with the other Armed Forces, with all the organs of Public Security and national defense industry and international military attachés in the main Brazilian embassies, which facilitates the relationship between systems of countries intelligence employees in matters of repression of international trafficking in firearms. Thus, it is concluded that the Brazilian Army, has a great capacity to perform a great job for the brazilian society. The monitoring would be of the form already exists, complemented by timely and objective repression, with investigation, prosecution and dismantling of criminal activities linked to crimes involving firearms, explosives, ammunition and other activities that use restricted use and military artifacts, which may cause serious risk to society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work examines the character, functioning and changes therein of the state security apparatus, the socialist "arcana imperii," in pre-1989 Bulgaria. Building on Foucault's notion of 'governance' and on his formulation of power as both productive and repressive, the paper aims to analyze the political strong arm of the regime as a knowledge management institution. The importance of surveillance for modern politics and the dynamics of secrecy are discussed as structured by technologies of exclusion, obstruction, and revelation. State security is contextualized through the perspective of the 20th century revolutionary objective to engineer the new socialist subject [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the new (2013) Japan's National Security Strategy and its relationship with the actual changes in the regional and global strategic landscape. The connections between the new Japanese perspectives on the subject and the recent U.S decision to focus its military Power in the Asia Pacific region will be specially stressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes some documents produced by the Higher School of War, the main leadership formation center of the Brazilian dictatorial. They consisted of handbooks, reviews, books and reports published by its students, in small formation groups. It deals with the institution´s representations on gender relationships with special emphasis on models for males and females and the importance of their mobilization for the construction of a power project for an authoritarian state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current article analyzes the judgment of crimes against popular economy during the Brazilian military dictatorship. They were actually considered crimes against the homeland and transferred to the military justice. The paper also explains the political and economical context that displaced this type of crime to the military courts and the establishment of a repression network against these crimes throughout 1966. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reinserted the issue of immigration into the media, along to questions related to (in) security and (un)employment. The foreigner, the other, came to be characterized as a threat in a discursive system that blended fiction and reality: both in movies and in news, the immigrant has been presented as a problem to be solved, in speeches that are reinforced, constituting what can be termed as hegemonic discourse. In this paper, based on Gramsci and Robert Stam theoretical framework, we seek to identify aspects of a counter-hegemonic discourse into the film Welcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the as a sphere of dialogue between Police and community and, consequently, a new organization of traditionally hierarchical structures through the insertion of the citizen into the management of public policies. The matter of popular participation in public policies emerged as a focus of analysis in Brazilian social sciences, especially after the resignation of city councils, seeking to approximate public policy managers and citizens. In the specific case of public security, the motivation for the engagement of citizens in public policies acquires a more incisive connotation due to the growth of violent crime levels in the country. The present article offers a case study of the Council of Public Security in Brumadinho, a city in the Metropolitan Area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. This case presents relevant elements for the understading of the complex interaction between social and public actors as well as their implications for the construction of public policies. In this way, it is possible to simultaneously discuss the challenges of popular participation and the new arrangement of the public structures, traditionally responsible for managing public security policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to delimit the definition of both concepts and levels of coverage of each policy in the Defense area and civil and military participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intents to show some international politics questions in the energetic themes. We have in mind the great powers have strong policy to have energetic security liked to situation from conflict and dispute by energetic goods because they have strategic and plans of actions. Then, we have the same intent to show if, effectively, Brazil has equal strategy of it energetic security. Nowadays, energy issues are part of international system problems. In this fact the theme claims more observations and research to understand some questions from them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our objective in this paper is to argue the relations between civilians and military in the process of consolidation of the democracy in the South America, Argentina and Brazil in particular and how these countries promoting the integration in the defense and security areas. The perspective adopted is that the stability degree in civilian-military relations directly happens on the development of the cooperation in regional security and of course on stability of the Latin American democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main argument of this paper is that the process of interaction between Ukraine and Russia generates a social identity of enmity, which is the source of the conflict of interests between the two countries. In order to defend the argument, a theoretical model is proposed based on the importance of ideas to the constitution of interests and on the belief that interests are determined by identities. The next task is to demonstrate why the identity between the two countries is one of enmity. The reaction of both countries towards NATO expansion is used to illustrate the consequences of enmity. Because identities determine interests, the relationship between friend States involves common interests and between foes divergent interests. So the perception of a threat is shared by friends while between enemies the friend of one becomes the enemy of the other. That is why Ukraine cooperates with NATO and Russia does not accept its expansion. In order to avoid that the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia become a threat to Europe's security, it's necessary to change the identity constructed in through their interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the regionalization of security in Latin America taking for reference the main differences among the regional complex of security in South America and the one in Central America and the Caribbean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]