A intersecção das agendas de política externa comercial e de cooperação sul-sul para o desenvolvimento: a (não) estratégia brasileira para o setor algodoeiro dos países do C4 e do Togo.

• Autor(a) principal: Bueno, Adriana Mesquita Corrêa
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12375
• topic: Brazilian Foreign Policy; South-South Cooperation for Development; Foreign Policy Analysis; World Trade Organization; Cotton dispute; Cotton-4; Política Externa Brasileira; Cooperação Sul-Sul para o Desenvolvimento; Análise de Política Externa; Organização Mundial do Comércio; Contencioso do algodão; Cotton-4; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA

The present thesis analyzes the confluence of two relevant agendas of the Brazilian Foreign Policy: the commercial and the South-South Cooperation for Development (SSC-D). Brazil, through consistent action in the multilateral field of the World Trade Organization (WTO), questioned the United States domestic policy of cotton subsidies under the Dispute Settlement 267. From the victory obtained and confirmed by the various litigation panels, the country received compensatory funding from the US government totaling just over US$ 800 million - of which US$ 80 million were destined to finance cotton technical cooperation projects with developing countries. Parallel to efforts on the trade agenda, Brazil sought to strengthen its presence in the International System through international technical cooperation, by executing several projects in African, Latin American and Caribbean and Asian countries. Using two projects developed with the Cotton-4 countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, a group originated in the WTO to fight cotton subsidies in developed countries , and Togo as a case study, the dissertation examines the convergence of both foreign policy agendas. This examination is possible by taking into consideration the analysis of the decision-making process and the participation of domestic actors, especially government bureaucracies and the private sector. In addition to the aforementioned case study, the methodologies used in conducting the research include theoretical-bibliographic research, historical-documentary research and empirical research, through interviews. Lastly, it concludes that there was no elaboration of a guiding strategy for the Brazilian SSC-D in cotton over the examined period due to general and specific factors. The general factors are related to the lack of legal framework for international cooperation, especially the provided one; the low coordination capacity of ABC and MRE in SSC-D; and to little, if any, strategic prioritization of the demands received. The specific factors are related to the high volume of resources received and made available in a short period of time for the exclusive implementation of initiatives in the cotton sector, the limited number of Brazilian institutions that have expertise in this crop and the dispute between the productive sector and the MRE considering the allocation of financial resources to the Brazilian SSC. Ultimately, it can be inferred that the absence of a strategy for the Brazilian SSC in the cotton sector stems from the lack of a Policy of International Cooperation for Development of the country.