A Hegemonia Estadunidense e o Protocolo Adicional para Aplicação de Salvaguardas no âmbito do TNP: uma análise a partir de Gramsci - 10.5102/uri.v4i1.276

Abstract

The Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty was created to increase the application of safeguards on non-nuclear states. The United States of America have pledged to support this Protocol since its establishment. The US aspires that the Protocol come into effect in all signatory states, in order to hinder the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The US position is thus submitted to a detailed critique through Antonio Gramsci’s understanding of hegemony, by way of its use in International Relations. Hegemony is examined in the treatment the US has given to the Additional Protocol, since the International Atomic Energy Agency has accepted, and has done everything possible for its unanimous adoption. The US, in its turn, has acted in a way to demonstrate the benefits to be reaped should states accept the Protocol. The article concludes that the Gramscian concept of hegemony has an effective application in the analysis of the Additional Protocol, as well as in the expression of the US hegemonic position.