Argentina and the Nuclear Safeguards Regional System

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  • Sérgio Luiz Cruz Aguilar Universidade do Estado de São Paulo (UNESP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/rmi.2013.8364

Abstract

In 2011, the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC), created to administer the Common System of Accounting and Control of Nuclear Material (CSAC) has completed twenty years of existence. ABACC and the Quadripartite Agreement established with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are a special system of safeguards that presents itself as an important example of regional contribution to global nuclear proliferation. The paper presents some considerations about the process of understanding between Brazil and Argentina that resulted in the creation of ABACC, indicates succinctly some theoretical explanations of international relations for this process and, from some features of the Agency, relates how the ABACC experience could support nuclear weapons free zones.

Keywords: Brazil; Argentine; ABACC.

Received on September 1, 2013 / Accepted on September 18, 2013.

Author Biography

Sérgio Luiz Cruz Aguilar, Universidade do Estado de São Paulo (UNESP)

Doutor em História (UNESP). Professor do Departamento de Sociologia e Antropologia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Estado de São Paulo (UNESP)

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Published

2013-12-31

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Aguilar, S. L. C. (2013). Argentina and the Nuclear Safeguards Regional System. Mural Internacional, 4(2), 17–25. https://doi.org/10.12957/rmi.2013.8364

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2013): JUL-DEZ

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