Strategies of international defense of "ethanol commodity": The double-lobby of the UNICA in Brazil and the United States.

• Grant number: 10/01711-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2010
• End date: December 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Fernandes de Oliveira
• Grantee: Sylvio Henrique Neto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research will seek to understand how the UNICA (Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association) organizes itself in order to act protecting their members´ interests from the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry sector, specially referring to the construction of international cooperative arrangements which eases up the ethanol trade liberalization, aiming to transform it into a global energetic commodity. This way, we will trace theirs double lobby strategies, which consists on formal and informal manipulating mechanisms as well as the Brazilian and North American International Trade Policy performance.