O papel da Marinha do Brasil no Atlântico Sul e seu reflexo na geopólitica do petróleo

Abstract

Oil is the main raw material of geopolitics and its use as a weapon dates back to the seventh cen - tury, the Greek fire, used by the Byzantines to defend Constantinople from Arab raids. In the XXI century, the golden triangle, formed by the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Guinea and the Brazilian oil basin; is the new frontier in the oil industry. The reflexivity identification in the geopolitics of oil re - sulting from the performance of the Brazilian naval power in the South Atlantic can be seen from geopolitical analysis. The three pillars of power of the Brazilian state, namely: military, economic and political; are tools of geopolitical analysis to be applied to the Golden Triangle. The deepening of the globalization model from international trade depends on cheap shipping directly and this in turn of cheap oil, since energy is the main input of the economy. Financial mathematical correlation between the naval power and the geopolitics of oil underlies the use of a marine in the third wave of capitalism, resulting in positive reflexivity to the geopolitics of oil.