Democracia, política externa e integração regional: um estudo comparativo das trejetórias de Argentina e Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: França, Luiz Daniel Jatobá
• Orientador(a): Lima, Maria Regina Soares de
• Banca de defesa: Santos, Fabiano Guilherme Mendes , Feres Júnior, João , Hirst, Monica Ellen Seabra , Vaz, Alcides Costa , Saraiva, Miriam Gomes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Sociais::Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Democracia; Politização; Política externa; Integração regional; MERCOSUL; ALCA; Argentina; Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Democracy; Politicization; Regional integration; MERCOSUR; FTAA; Argentine; Brazil
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::CIENCIA POLITICA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12405

This work focuses on the phenomena of politicization of foreign policy and the struggle for democratization of its decision-making process, in what refers to the regional integration policies of Argentine and Brazil, in MERCOSUR and FTAA. The main objective is to analyze, in first place, the processes of political liberalization and regime transition occurred in these countries between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, and, secondly, the relation between the incorporation of regionalism in the respective international insertion strategies and the politicization of foreign policies since the end of the Cold War. Considering the controversies around the concept of democracy, this essay discusses the main analytical strategies found in comparative politics and the three main contemporary theoretical perspectives (realism, pluralism and deliberativism). The empirical analysis focuses in two processes: the creation of the MERCOSUR, from its origins to the end of its transition phase (1991-1994), and the negotiations to the establishment of the FTAA, since the beginning until its suspension (1994-2005). It is argued that although the incorporation of regionalism has generated growing domestic politicization of the foreign policy, this result did not mean advancement towards democratization of decision-making process in these two specific realms.