3° Encontro Nacional ABRI 2001


ISBN 2236-7381 versión impresa

Resumen

PECEQUILO, Cristina Soreanu y CARMO, Corival Alves do. Models of South American integration and Brazil's international projection strategies.. In: 3° ENCONTRO NACIONAL ABRI 2001, 3., 2011, São Paulo. Anales electrnicos... Assosciação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais Instituto de Relações Internacionais - USP, Disponible en: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000122011000100057&lng=es&nrm=abn>. Aceso en: 24 Abr. 2024.

Since 1960, Brazil has been playing a significant role in the process of South American integration, starting with the creation of ALALC. However, the evolution of these efforts has not been steady due to political issues such as the emergence of Authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, regional rivalries, economic difficulties and infrastructural constraints. After the redemocratization of Latin America in the 1980s, and the emergence of ALADI, new attempts of creating a profitable framework of engagement were made in the region and Brazilian foreign policy gained several ground in these matters, with the creation of MERCOSUR in the early 1990s. In spite of the foreign debt crisis, the neoliberal agenda of the Washington Consensus and domestic instabilities, South America regional integration sustained a positive path in the midst of several adaptations since MERCOSUR. With Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva governments in Brazil, these projects matured into political and economic programs of cooperation and policies coordination that led to IIRSA and to UNASUR. Both these projects had political goals, as well as infrastructure and development aims, exploring economic and strategic regional potentials of the region such as in the energetic and industrial fields. The aim of this article is to analyze Brazil's role in the process of South American integration and the different models experienced by the region in search of its strengthening and international projection, focusing on the Brazilian experience and its core initiatives as the roots of this growing autonomy.

Palabras llave : South America; Regional Integration; Brazilian Foreign Policy.