THE ALCÂNTARA AGREEMENT AND THE UNITED STATE’S COVERT DEVELOPMENTALISM

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira Bojikian, Neusa Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Pasquariello Mariano, Karina L., Forti Thomaz, Laís
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno CRH
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/crh/article/view/47382
• topic: Relations between Brazil and the United States; Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA); Neoliberalism.; Developmentalism.; Relações Brasil-Estados Unidos; Acordo de Salvaguardas Tecnológicas (AST); Neoliberalismo; Política Externa Brasileira e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico; Relations Brésil-États-Unis.; Accord de sauvegardes technologique (AST).; Néolibéralisme.; Développementisme.

The concern with Brazil’s spatial sector is part of a wider debate on the  promotion of economic development as a basis for better international insertion of the country. Based on a literature review and case study, the research verified that, historically, Brazilian governments have varied intheir adherence to the economic  ideology defended by the United States, without considering that thiscountry has developmentalist elements, acting as an agent of transfer and diffusion of new  technologies. The goal is to show that the Technology Safeguards Agreement is functional for the US government’sstrategy to promote development with covert State participation. In turn, this tends to represent important limitations to implementing spatial policies in Brazil. We infer that the TSA  is an instrument by which the US  government seeks to mitigate the  regulatory risks to which its companies are subjected and leverage the  competitiveness of its industrial base.