As Nações Unidas e o conceito de segurança coletiva

The Portuguese Special Operations Forces as Instrument of Foreign Policy: The Case Study of Afghanistan

“…Teixeira [17] also portrays the Portuguese position in the Euro-Atlantic binomial, in the post-colonial relations regarding the new multilateral triangle and based on foreign policy values, which we summarize as follows: (1) The Europe-Atlantic binomial remains the geopolitical equation: Portugal as an EU country seeking to promote and enhance not only the Atlantic position between Europe and the USA, but also the post-colonial relations (African Portuguese-speaking countries), the key for the strategic guidelines of the foreign policy of democracy [17][18][19]; (2) Portugal seeks participation in terms of producing international security, such as the military presence in organizations as NATO, EU and UN (the new multilateral triangle), which has provided not only a factor of military modernization, but also the external credibility of the Portuguese State. The armed forces have become a foreign policy tool [17,19,20]; 3The challenge is in the global plan of international security, in an environment marked by terrorism, ethnic and religious conflicts; that is why the framework of security has to be cooperative security [17,21]; (4) The presence of the Portuguese armed forces in peacekeeping missions under the umbrella of the UN confirms the diplomacy of values that had the independence of Timor as one of its major hits [17]; 5Lastly, foreign policy always comes from the formulation of interests. However, the contemporaneous democratic model ignores the interests of the states and focuses on the human values.…”