Mozambique-Brazil Relations: pragmatism in the approach to emerging economies

Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 46

Abstract

The object of this paper are the relations between Mozambique and Brazil, an analytical foray to understand deeply, the integration between the theoretical background isolated from the state of art surrounding the subject, and the concrete actions in the ground, referring to dynamic of respective foreign policy, the main participants or incumbents in the foreign policy definition and implementation and the results, covering the period 1975-2014, in which, was registered a profound change in international anarchic scenario, whit the ending of the cold war and the emergency of neo-realist and neo-liberal paradigms, opening space to bet on in south-south relations, focusing the mutual dependency or mutual benefices of the internal groups involved in the decision making process, and if there is any disparity in the benefices, the same groups promote foreign policy change, through regime change or change in the direction until then followed by the foreign policy, acting by officers, or in process and stages level, concepts around them the paper is developed, in two moments, firstly by currents of thought enrolment about “Foreign Policy”, and secondly carrying out the “Foreign Policy Analyses”, both followed by the case study, as the title.

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Vasco Alberto Chemane

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  • EP ID EP549132
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.81562
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Vasco Alberto Chemane (2018). Mozambique-Brazil Relations: pragmatism in the approach to emerging economies. Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South, 9(46), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-549132