BRAZIL AND THE PARADIGMS OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE COOPERATION

Abstract

This article seeks to identify if in the field of outer space there is the presence of the dichotomy between the methods of South-South and North-South cooperation. Cooperation relationships for development, with characteristics such as mutual gains, solidarity, horizontality and lack of conditionality, are incorporated in the concept of South-South cooperation. Through the Case-Study methodology, we seek to verify the way in which the brazilian cooperation in this field occurs, seeking to observe the presence of the characteristics of South-South cooperation in three of the main cooperation partnerships taken by Brazil. We have discovered that, though there is not the full presence of the South-South and North-South cooperation dichotomy, one method of South-South cooperation, working as an alternative for the standard patterns of international space cooperation, was in use, and succesfully.