Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy, but its footprint remains relatively modest. This chapter in a forthcoming book documents the extent to which Brazil's economy remains fairly inward-looking and isolated from global markets, despite the...

This paper analyses aspects of the US and Brazilian foreign policy. Some events relate actions linked to the political realism school and others embraced in the interdependence and globalization views. This paper explores the historical environment where the United States and Brazil followed...

This paper attempts a review of the emerging literature that accounts about the failure of one of the most striking macroeconomic reforms in the southern tip of the Latin American continent. Enquiries about the faster response of this crisis in Brazil and the whys in Argentina, the recuperation...

This paper attempt to survey some political considerations that ended in the launching of the Summit of the Americas. This is a manifestation of the new uprising showed by the globalization process. We here by put into perspective economic assumptions that were conceived to launch the free trade...

Knowledge, the multinational firm, and the free flow of financial capital seem to be the new and perhaps leading actors in the emerging 21st century global economy. From a comparative basis and relating this variables we attempt in this paper to study and explore what we consider are basic...