Portuguese Abstract: Esta pesquisa apresenta um estudo reflexivo acerca de possíveis causas e os impactos da instabilidade política no desempenho do comércio internacional. Em formato de ensaio teórico, este artigo baseia-se em revisão teórica de autores que discutem sobre a globalização...

The increasing openness to international trade during the second half of the XXth century is an inescapable feature in the development of the Portuguese economy. Despite having been hit by several crises in its Balance of Payments over the century, Portugal did not suffer, apparently, from...

Brazil, together with India and South Africa, now represent a renewed source of international pressure, views, and resources. IBSA has brought together these three developing nations, that are regional powerhouses, therefore simultaneously opening space for affirmative multilateralism,...

This paper aims to understand and examine one of the domestic determinants of Brazilian foreign trade policy strategies from 1995 to 2010, focusing on the articulation of its trade policy with its foreign policy at large. Thus, the role of multilateralism and regionalism in Brazilian foreign...

This paper analyzes the multilateral regulation of international trade in agriculture from the GATT/1947 to the Doha Round, under the auspices of the WTO. From a historical-analytical perspective, the international context in which the multilateral system has been built is presented taking into...

The objective of the present paper is to analyze the Trade Defence Policy of the BICs, in the last 15 years, with emphasis to similarities and contrasts. The paper starts with the exam of the main issues of trade defence regulation as established in the GATT and the WTO. Then it moves to the...

This article has two main objectives. First, to develop, in a stylized way, a characterization line of the recent transformations that took place in the international economic and political system in the first decade of the 21st century, trying to show that these changes are a product of the new...

One of the main objectives of the Bretton Woods negotiations was to guarantee the firm control over competitive exchange rate devaluations, which had worsened the effects of the economic crisis of the 1930s. The par value exchange rate system was thus created, representing a link between the...

This paper aims to analyze how the waves of regionalism represented changes in the way trade policy has been conducted, expanding the game of political negotiation with variable geometry and determining its influence on the political regulation of international trade. To do so, the concept and a...

On March, 2011 the signing of the Treaty of Assunción by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay celebrated its 20th anniversary. Preferential trade agreements that create joint economic spaces might be seen as useful tools to promote economic development. This article discusses to what extent...