A Política externa para a África dos Governos FHC e Lula: uma análise comparada

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Walace
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• 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/1/15517
• topic: Africa; Comparative analysis; FHC and Lula governments; Brazilian foreign policy; África; Análise comparada; Governos FHC e Lula; Política externa brasileira; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

This thesis deals with the recent period of Brazilian Foreign Policy (BFP), including the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) in their relations with Africa. Those sixteen years have helped to consolidate redemocratization in the country, and this context also permitted not only a couple of political, economic and social changes, but also led to significant transformations of our foreign policy, which was still influenced by the complex reconfiguration of the post-Cold War geopolitics. Despite traditional values and characteristics of BFP permeate the diplomacy of both governments, there were important adjustments regarding to Africa. In this sense, we have been defended the thesis that there are an setting the course in the foreign policy of Brazil for Africa from one time to another. The analysis is anchored in four key dimensions of foreign policy, involving rhetoric and practices: 1) the major speeches of those responsible for BFP; 2) Brazilian political and diplomatic initiatives; 3) the foreign trade and investments by domestic enterprises in Africa; 4) South-South cooperation, especially technical cooperation. The orientation in these dimensions was influenced directly or indirectly by the weight of political and diplomatic actors involved in Brazilian Foreign Policy; by the international political and economic conditions - especially with regard to African context; and by the domestic situation of the political, economic and social point of view. Relations between the two sides of the Atlantic experienced fluctuation over time, which is repeated, in varying degrees, in the comparative analysis between Cardoso and Lula administrations. Africa has had low priority during FHC government, unlike Lula da Silva administration, when we see significant development in all dimensions.