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1. South American Perspectives for Future Cooperation on Security Architecture: Arrangements, Processes and Challenges

Author:
CEBRI
Publication Date:
12-2017
Content Type:
Policy Brief
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
The Forte de Copacabana International Security Conference is a joint Euro-Brazilian project organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in partnership with the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI) and supported by the Delegation of the European Union to Brazil. The conference is conceived as a forum for dialogue between South America and Europe. It aims to bring together experts from a wide range of government, academic and private-sector backgrounds to discuss current security-related issues which are of interest to the partners on both sides of the Atlantic. Since its inception in 2003, the conference has emerged from a relatively small gathering to Latin America’s largest security forum to date. The topic of the 14th edition of the conference is ‘Security Architecture: An Exchange between South America and Europe’. The conference is open to the public and the audience is encouraged to actively engage in discussions. As an innovation in 2017, this collection of Policy Papers reflects the major themes of the event and intend to identify challenges as well as make policy recommendations for the future. Previous volumes of the Forte de Copacabana International Security Conference publication can be accessed on the KAS-Brazil Office website
Topic:
International Cooperation and International Affairs
Political Geography:
South America

2. The Global and European Security Order during the Crisis: Power, Institutions, Principles

Author:
CEBRI
Publication Date:
11-2017
Content Type:
Policy Brief
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
The international order is currently undergoing a fundamental change and it is evident that this phase that has been lasting since the end of the East-West conflict is almost coming to an end. This change is associated with side effects which many observers perceive as destabilizing, as well as with a great uncertainty concerning which new order will replace the so far established one and what effects this will have. This situation is easy to understand, as far as the history of international relations can be used to identify numerous epochal watersheds related to regulatory governance that have not been peaceful, but instead whose side effects have rather been inter-state wars. One should think, for instance, of the rise in political power of the German Reich at the beginning of the twentieth century, or the phase immediately after the Second World War, when the East-West conflict emerged as a determining force for a period of almost four decades.
Topic:
International Affairs
Political Geography:
Global Focus

3. The South American Capabilities against Cyber Threats: From the Current Weaknesses towards a Common Response

Author:
CEBRI
Publication Date:
08-2017
Content Type:
Policy Brief
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
The Regional Security Architectures are challenged by the emergence of this new and enlarging space, whereas relationship, communication and operation are also new. In the cyberspace, the States’ empowerment is a complex matter and even if they succeed in doing so, they must resort to advanced technology. If we try to answer if South America has enough capacities against cyber threats, we necessarily must know what steps were given in each country. Integration is a pending debt in the sub region and it does not differ from a superior reality
Topic:
International Affairs and Cybersecurity
Political Geography:
Global Focus

4. The European Capabilities against Cyber Threats: Strengthening IT Security in Germany

Author:
CEBRI
Publication Date:
08-2017
Content Type:
Policy Brief
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
the Digital Agenda, in 2014 the German Federal Government proposed, within the framework of an IT Security Law, to strengthen IT security by expanding partnerships with critical infrastructure providers and by creating legal requirements, in addition to introducing an obligation to report significant incidents in the IT area. Germany was a pioneer with the IT Security Law in 2015.3 Through this law, critical infrastructure providers are required to ensure the security of their IT infrastructures according to the latest technology. The sectors concerned (information technology and telecommunications, energy management, food industry, water management, finance, transport and transit, as well as the health sector) have been defined in two regulations of the German Ministry of Interior, considering the quality and the amount of penetration rate achieved by systems, equipment or parts of critical infrastructures. The last regulation came into force at the end of June 2017.
Topic:
International Affairs
Political Geography:
Germany and Global Focus