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As of this issue, AUSTRAL presents eight articles, with authors from countries not yet represented: Oman, Jordan, Vietnam and Peru. The first two are general in nature, addressing the Sino-American hegemonic shift through Giovanni Arrighi's accumulation cycles and the power of American digital technology multinationals. Afterwards, the role of China in the stability of the Taliban's Afghanistan is analysed and then, in the same region, the role of the Sultanate of Oman in the Yemen Civil War. Next, there is an article on Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific, based on the perception of analysts from the region itself. Another innovative topic, in the context of slow and interminable negotiations between the European Union and Mercosur, is a historical analysis of the contradictions between the European Community and Latin American integration in the late 1980s. Also original is the discussion on the civilizational divide of the far-right from the perspective of German politics. Finally, Mozambique's foreign policy under the presidencies of Samora Machel and Joaquim Chissano receives an exciting overview.

In its twentieth edition, Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations celebrates its tenth anniversary. Initially, there is a balance of the activities of the Journal, consolidated with a focus on SouthSouth Academic Cooperation and an independent posture. Below is a sequence of four articles that analyse aspects of China's global projection, two of which also include Russia, at a time when the Biden administration exerts even greater pressure on both countries than that of former President Trump. The next seven articles address Defence and International Security Studies, with texts that provide an academic review of Security Studies, Naval Power, export of defense products, the role of NATO, Obama's policy towards the East Middle and North Africa and on the role of the UN in the fight against terrorism in West Africa. It ends with an additional updated text on the South African political crisis.

The Russian Federation and China are large land States (the first and fourth, respectively), characterized by their configuration as land powers from a geopolitical perspective. Recently, through its development and extroversion of its economy, China has built a naval power with a world presence. Russia, on the other hand, which lost much of the naval and coastal power that the USSR had, is trying to rebuild its capacity for maritime defense and exploration of the new Arctic Route, but still with limited global projection. By analyzing the recent naval projection of these traditional land powers, the article seeks to discuss the extent to which traditional geopolitics is reaching its zenith and initiating its own overcoming

BRIEF INTRODUCTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL IMPACTS OF THE 2020 PANDEMIC: CONTRIBUTION TO A STRATEGIC ANALYSIS