Brazil in regional and global history

• Grant number: 12/10358-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: October 08, 2012
• End date: December 05, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Maria Hermínia Brandão Tavares de Almeida
• Grantee: Maria Hermínia Brandão Tavares de Almeida
• Visiting researcher: Leslie Michael Bethell
• Visiting researcher institution: King's College London, England
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

My principal research project in the second semester of 2012 will be to advance the two chapters on Brazil in the Cold War (1945-64, 1964-1989) for my projected book on Brazil in regional and global history. I will be building on what I have written already - my chapter on Brazil in Leslie Bethell & Ian Roxborough, Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; Portuguese trans., São Paulo, Editora Paz e Terra, 1996, and my chapters on Politics in Brazil under the Liberal Republic 1945 - 1964 and (with Celso Castro) Politics in Brazil under military rule 1964 - 1985 in the Cambridge History of Latin America Vol. VIII, Brazil since 1930 Cambridge. (AU)