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...

The aim of this paper is to know, compare, contrast and evaluate the positive aspects of creating a hemispheric market, by analyzing the bilateral and multilateral agreements under negotiation, particularly the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The theoretical framework is based on the...

A detailed review of the literature shows some of the emerging opportunities that the Andean Countries may face under a favorable negotiation terms within the FTAA. Blocs may address the idea of a building bloc approach to economic integration within the Western Hemisphere. The second largest...

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 research attempts an exploratory inquiry to view, identify, and foresee trends where the forthcoming Summit of the Americas may depart as a dynamic agent that will determine the transformation of developing economies in the Western Hemisphere. We launched this proposition based on a...

A deep archive enquire reveals to the author that the management of the Colombian Coffee Industry during the last quarter of a century did not accomplish the best management practices as the Williamson and Coase fundamental transaction cost theorem proclaimed. This iron management theorem was...

After the Quebec Presidential Summit of The Americas Meeting, countries like Colombia will have to reshape its political structure to meet Hemispheric requirements. We will have to encourage universal education, preserve democracy, deepen economic integration and eradicate poverty. This is a...

This paper attempts a historical review upon the major historical determinants that shaped Colombian International Politics, referring mainly to the US-Colombian relations. Also enquires in the lead of the major institutional developments that guide to the formation of the global market and...

One topic of interest for the social sciences and similar fields, such as business administration, economics and political science is globalization. Many researchers suggest that this is a new topic. Our research, however, looked into the assumptions of political and economic history concerning...

Foreign demand will place technology intensive productive factors and various areas of knowledge in motion. There will be institutional changes that will lead productive centers to modify their allocation of tasks and functions. Regional production centers, such as Bogota, as a city-region with...