Scientific seminar "Enhancing Confidence and Security through Military-Political and Military-Technical Cooperation between Russia and Brazil within BRICS"
A scientific seminar "Enhancing Confidence and Security through Military-Political and Military-Technical Cooperation between Russia and Brazil within BRICS" was held on June 30. The seminar was dedicated to military-political and military-technical cooperation between Russia and Brazil, as well as the development of confidence-building measures and security in bilateral relations and within BRICS. Participants discussed the creation of a consensus-based security framework based on trust-building measures and human security, as well as the possibility of extending this concept to other BRICS countries.
The keynote speaker, Alexander Zhebit, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), invited researcher at the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at HSE University, grantee of CAPES (Brazil), highlighted the challenges and opportunities of building confidence on bilateral and multilateral levels. The speaker also emphasized the importance of developing confidence-building measures both in bilateral relations between Russia and Brazil and in the broader framework of the BRICS countries, analyzing the pan-Asian experience of confidence-building measures in comparison with the South American one. The participants discussed the issues of activating military-technical, trade and humanitarian cooperation between Russia and Latin American countries in the new geopolitical environment and highlighted new promising areas of interaction, such as education and cybersecurity.
The discussion was also joined by Vasily Kashin, Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies; Dmitry Rosenthal, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor; and Ekaterina Kosevich, Senior Research Associate at the International Laboratory for World Order Studies and New Regionalism, Associate Professor.