Regional integration and Brazilian foreign policy: preferences of business groups in South American infrastructure projects

Author(s)

Tiago França Menegatti

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI)
• Defense date: 2021-02-05

Examining board members

Wagner Pralon Mancuso; Marcelo Passini Mariano; Vinícius Guilherme Rodrigues Vieira

• Advisor: Wagner Pralon Mancuso

Abstract

This dissertation aims to understand how the participation of Brazilian business associations in Brazilian foreign policy for the processes of infrastructure integration in South America was carried out after the creation of the Initiative for the Integration of Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA). IIRSA represented the first institution for regional physical integration established by all South American presidents. The integration of the infrastructure is fundamental for a greater economic and social development of the countries in the region, in a global context in which logistics is very relevant for trade. However, part of the bibliography indicated a bureaucratic isolation of the Brazilian Foreign Office, a thesis that has been refuted in recent works. In this context, this work seeks to analyze how the theme of infrastructure may have been one of the subjects for the deconcentrating of the decision-making process in the Brazilian foreign policy. The results suggest the participation of industrial business associations in the process of process of formulating Brazilian foreign policy for infrastructure matters in South America in the 2000s and 2010s. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 18/08150-5 - Regional integration and the horizontalization of the Brazilian foreign policy: preferences of the business community in the infrastructure projects in South America
• Grantee: Tiago Franca Menegatti
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master