Abstract

NOGUEIRA, José Manuel Freire. The 1807/1808 Crisis: A short essay on strategy. Rev. Portuguesa e Brasileira de Gestão [online]. 2009, vol.8, n.1, pp.89-99. ISSN 1645-4464.

Strategy is today a word with many meanings. In this text, its original meaning - the employment of coercion to achieve political goals - is highlighted in the double context of its relations with Geopolitics - Geostrategy - and the transfer of Portuguese government to Brazil, as an asymmetric response to the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal in 1807. Political and geopolitical options taken by Portugal during the preceding years as well as prevailing geostrategic conditions made that response simultaneously inevitable, and very effective. Inevitable, was also the independence of Brazil, a consequence far from being forecasted when the Portuguese royal family initiated the crossing of the Atlantic in 1807.

Keywords : Strategy; Geopolitics; Geostrategy; Asymmetric; Continental and Maritime Power.

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