Brasil e Argentina sob Lula e Kirchner(s): percepções de políticas externas e efeito sobre o Mercosul (2003 2010)

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Ana Carolina Vieira de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15586
• topic: Foreign policy; Brazil; Argentina; Mercosur; Change; Regional integration; Brasil Relações exteriores Argentina; Argentina Relações exteriores Brasil; Política externa; Brasil; Argentina; Mercosul; Mudança; Integração regional; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA

Brazil and Argentina developed for decades a sense of rivalry. Gradually, this feeling was replaced by the sense of cooperation and therefore integration between them. This relation culminated in the creation of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), one of the most important organizations of the South American region. However, throughout the 1990s, Mercosur had moments of crisis, as well the national economies. This situation has led to the possibility of retreat or even the dissolution of the block that, in earlier periods, had good moments in increasing trade and confidence between its two largest members. However, since 2003, new presidents in Brazil and in Argentina changed the context of crisis. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, and Néstor Kirchner, president of Argentina came to power with similar ideas referents to regional integration and foreign policy. Also, there was great concern with each other in terms of foreign policy, and Brazil and Argentina are considered strong partners in political, strategic and economic issues. From the literature that studies the State as central in foreign policy as well those who study changes in foreign policy and the period from 2003 to 2010, this paper evaluates Brazil and Argentina. Lula's second government and the first mandate of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are studied too, because they are considered governments of continuity in reference with previous governments. From this relation between Brazil and Argentina, as States, one can perceived a change in the reconfiguration of Mercosur. There in more interest in developing the organization, from economic issues to economic, social, political and physical questions. Since then, there are more initiatives within Mercosur, and greater availability and confidence from the governments.