Download or read book Brazil s Africa Strategy written by C. Stolte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.
Download or read book Brazil Africa Relations in the 21st Century written by Mathias Alencastro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first books to analyse the full cycle of rise and fall of Brazil's foreign policy towards Africa in the beginning of the 21st century. During his government, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) made the drive towards Africa one of the cornerstones of Brazilian diplomacy and cooperation. In a bid to build strategic trading partnerships with African counterparts, Lula’s government committed itself to an ambitious program centred on provisions in loans and credits as well as the exponential growth of its South-South cooperation. After Lula, however, this drive towards Africa started to decline and finally collapsed in face of political meltdown in Brazil and the proliferation of controversial judicial investigations that directly involved political leaders at the centre of most initiatives undertook in the 2000s. The rise and fall of Brazil-Africa relations has provoked much discussion in policy-making, as well as scholarly research. This book seeks to provide valuable resources to the study of this process by presenting empirically based and updated analysis from different perspectives, such as: The diplomatic tradition of Brazil-Africa relations The role played by Brazilian big private companies in Africa Brazilian health cooperation with African countries The participation of civil society in Brazil-Africa relations Brazil-Africa trade relations Military cooperation between Brazil and Africa Brazil’s drive to Africa left a durable mark, whose implications are yet to be understood. What were its main successes and failures? And what does the dramatic change of events, with Brazil moving from a pivotal player to an almost invisible one in merely half a decade, tell us about South-South cooperation? These are some of the questions that Brazil-Africa Relations in the 21st Century – From Surge to Downturn and Beyond intends to answer in order to provide a useful resource for Political Science and International Relations scholars interested in the study of South-South relations, as well as for policy makers interested in understanding the changing dynamics of International Relations in the wake of the 21st century.
Download or read book Brazil Africa Relations written by Gerhard Seibert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fills an important gap in the study of Africa's international relations and its engagement with rising economies in the Global South.
Download or read book South Africa and Brazil written by Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented during the South Africa and Brazil Seminar, 24-25 September 1996, Rio de Janeiro, organized by the International Relations Research Institute (IPRI).
Download or read book Understanding the EU s Strategic Partnerships with Brazil India and South Africa written by Natalie M. Hess and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collective Action and Political Transformations written by Aurea Mota and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe. By doing so, it contributes a critical perspective to the debate about the possible impact of parts of the Global South for positive social and political developments worldwide.
Download or read book Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa written by Evan S. Lieberman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationally-specific definitions of citizenship proved decisive for the development of the Tax State in Brazil and South Africa in the twentieth century. Although both countries had been divided along racial and regional lines in the late nineteenth century, watershed constitutions addressed these political problems in very different ways. South Africa's institutionalized white supremacy created a level of political solidarity that contributed to the development of a highly progressive and efficient tax system. In Brazil, federalism and official non-racialism proved more divisive, making the enactment and collection of progressive taxes much more difficult. The legacy of these divergent state-building processes remains evident at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Lieberman extends this analysis to a wider group of country cases and finds similar patterns and causal relationships between the politics of race, region, and taxation. The findings are based on field research, large-scale national surveys, macroeconomic data, and various archival sources.
Download or read book Is south south co operation still possible The case of Brazil s strategy and Argentina s impulses towards the new South Africa and Africa written by Gladys Lechini de Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa Rising written by Ian Taylor and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth comes improved governance and endogenous dynamics; that the emerging economies, and especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), have been instrumental in diversifying Africa's international relations, perhaps leading to a radical change in the global order, favourable to the developing world. But to what extent is this true, and how deep and how broad has been the impact on society at large? This book takes a critical look at the prevalent Africa Rising discourse, and explores the nature and implications of Africa's "rise" and the role that the BRICS have played in it. The author argues that Africa has still to undergo any structural transformation; that there is strong evidence that deindustrialisation and jobless growth have accompanied the upsurge of interest in the continent; and that far from making a radical turn in its developmental trajectory, Africa is being pushed into the resource corner as commodity exporters, to the North (and now, the BRICS) with little scope for industrial progress or skills advancement. Hope that the BRICS might offer an alternative to the extant neoliberal order are misplaced, for the BRICS have a stake in maintaining the current global unequality. Africa must therefore fashion its own independent path - while the emerging economies will be important, relying on external actors may simply reproduce anew the current state of underdevelopment. Ian Taylor is Professor in International Relations and African Politics, University of St Andrews; Chair Professor, Renmin, University of China; Professor Extraordinary, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Honorary Professor, Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, China; and a Visiting Scholar at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda.
Download or read book Brazilian Foreign Policy in Changing Times written by Gabriel Cepaluni and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazilian Foreign Policy in Changing Times contributes both empirically and theoretically to the study of international relations. The book illuminates Brazilian foreign policy in the democratic era, a subject scarcely touched on elsewhere. This book also offers a new conceptualization of the debate on the path to an autonomous foreign policy.
Download or read book Understanding the EU s Strategic Partnerships with Brazil India and South Africa written by Natalie M. Hess and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Investment Climate in Brazil India and South Africa written by Qimiao Fan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bevat: Introduction -- Assessing the investment climate of Brazil, India, and South Africa -- Macroeconomic and trade policy -- Macroeconomic performance -- Taxation -- Foreign trade and exchange -- The benefits of exporting : the case of Brazil -- Microeconomic framework -- Regulation -- Enforcement -- Enabling environment for growth -- Investment climate and firm location -- Access to finance -- Physical infrastructure -- Cost and availability of skilled labor -- Crime -- Potential reforms and their estimated effects -- Investment climate reform and productivity -- Examining options for microeconomic reform : access to credit -- Lessons from country experience -- A flat tax for micro and small firms : the SIMPLES reform in Brazil -- The emergence of India's software sector -- Building a respected corporate tax system in South Africa -- South Africa's accelerated and shared growth initiative -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Concept of the investment climate --Appendix B: Data sources.
Download or read book Intermediate States Regional Leadership and Security written by Alcides Costa Vaz and published by Editora Unb. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mozambique and Brazil written by Chris Alden and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically investigates the expanding involvement of a leading emerging power, Brazil, in one of Africa's fastest growing economies, Mozambique. It focuses on the dynamics of Brazilian development assistance, its flagship engagement in Mozambique's agricultural and resource sector and the burgeoning social ties that bind them together. With elites in Brazil and Mozambique celebrating the strengths of South-South Cooperation, there is an emerging belief that the two countries are on the path to forging a new development partnership. However, despite these official discourses, there is growing evidence that the conduct of Brazilian firms and the policies promoted by Brazilian development assistance projects are generating negative fallout within local communities and among local environmental activists. Indeed, the complexities of Brazil's economic diplomacy and its private commercial interests, coupled with the involvement of everyone from Brazilian NGOs operating in the health sector to missionaries evangelising in rural towns in Mozambique, seem to affirm the unique characteristics of this growing relationship and the problems that it is facing in becoming truly sustainable.
Download or read book The BRICS and Coexistence written by Cedric de Coning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grouping consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was initially meant to be nothing more than clever investment jargon referring to the largest and most attractive emerging economies. However, these countries identified with the BRIC concept, and started to meet annually as a group in 2008. At their fourth summit in 2011, they added South Africa to become the BRICS. By then the BRICS had fully morphed from investment jargon to a name for a new economic and political grouping that had the potential to challenge the unipolar hegemony of the United States and its Western allies. This work analyses the extent to which the concept of coexistence explains the individual foreign policies of the BRICS countries. The editors define coexistence as a strategy that promotes the establishment of a rule-based system for co-managing the global order. It recognizes that different states may legitimately pursue their own political and economic interests, but they have to do so within the bounds of a rule-based international system that ensures the peaceful coexistence of states. The BRICS and Coexistence addresses the political dimension of the emergence and influence of the BRICS in the international system and will be of interest to students and scholars of Politics, Development and International Relations.
Download or read book Southern Engines of Global Growth written by Amelia U. Santos-Paulino and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores how the Southern Engines, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa are reshaping the world economy. It looks at their development experiences, and examines how these could provide useful lessons to the developing world.
Download or read book The Coordination Of Brics Development Strategies Towards Shared Prosperity written by Linggui Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (known as bloc), have been working closely together for more than a decade in areas as politics, economics, culture and security. The bloc plays a crucial role in facilitating the growth of not only emerging markets and developing countries, but also the world economy as a whole. Just as importantly, it contributes significantly towards improving global governance and the welfare of those living in BRICS countries. Contributed by more than 20 experts from major think tanks in BRICS countries, the chapters in this book analyze how the BRICS countries have realized shared prosperity and achieved global prominence by cooperating with one another. In addition, the authors also look at challenges faced by the bloc, and possible solutions to those problems.
