DEVELOPMENTISM, NEOLIBERALISM AND FOREIGN POLICY: implications for relations between Brazil and African countries

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Elga Lessa de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno CRH
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/crh/article/view/47810
• topic: desenvolvimentismo; neoliberalismo; política externa; Brasil; países africanos; Influência das vertentes político-econômicas na agenda africana; Developmentalism.; Neoliberalism.; Foreign policy.; Brazil.; African countries.; Développementisme.; Néolibéralisme.; Politique étrangère; Brésil.; Pays africains

The analysis of recent years of political and economic relations between Brazil and African countries shows a tendency to repeat a pattern present throughout the 20th century – short periods of approximation followed by longer periods of estrangement. It is possible to notice that Brazilian investment in these relations has  varied according to the political orientation adopted, whether developmental or neoliberal. The  purpose of this article is to understand how the adoption of developmental and neoliberal policies and their versions of the 21st century has  affected relations between Brazil and African countries. We start from the initial understanding that the stabilityand deepening of relations between Brazil and African countries are largely dependent on state action, whose variations in action result from somelimitations inherent to the peripheral position of these countries in the world-economy and from the internal relations held within of those countries.