Open AccessO governo Dilma Rousseff e a América do Sul: a atuação brasileira na UNASUL (2011-2014)
Author(s) -
Alexandre Fuccille,
Marcelo Passini Mariano,
Haroldo Ramanzini Júnior,
Rafael Augusto Ribeiro de Almeida
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
colombia internacional
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1900-6004
pISSN - 0121-5612
DOI - 10.7440/colombiaint92.2017.02
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , autonomy , scope (computer science) , regional autonomy , political science , government (linguistics) , corporate governance , indonesian government , public administration , economic growth , business , economics , politics , indonesian , finance , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , law , programming language
This article sets out to discuss the foreign policy of Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014) in relation to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). It examines the direction Brazil wanted that organization to go in when the scope of such South American institutions was widened to formally include new sectors —defense, infrastructure and finance— in regional treaties. After investigating Brazil’s actions in those sectors, it found that the government of Brazil: a) sought to support means of governance which were not sufficiently institutionalized; b) wished to reconcile a broad national autonomy with increased commitments to regional mechanisms; and c) did not provide help in forming a regional bureaucracy that would have provided the minimal operational conditions required to support the proposed integrationist initiatives