Brasil, ator do desenvolvimento econômico sul-americano: veredas

Abstract

This project aims to study the actions of Brazil in South America, exploring interpretations such as the Brazilian imperialism, South American regional hegemony and multilateralism. It contextualizes anciens realities, when some of those interpretations were in force, to ask whether they are still valid in today subcontinent scene. The final goal is to analyze if the cooperation between the South American countries is mutually beneficial, without imperialism and hegemonization bias, and if Brazil is an agent of this cooperation for the regional development. In the chronological aspect, it asks if this regional Brazilian role kept true even with the changes of governments, in special the late one, between Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer. The method used to attain those goals is the analyses of the paradigms, expressed in official’s speeches, and the concrete initiatives, focusing in those after 1995.