El liderazgo brasileño en Sudamérica: Una aspiración de corta duración

Abstract

This paper analyzes the dynamics of the Brazilian political position to South America and the South American integration process since 1993. Through this scope, our research wants to answer the following questions: Which were the main Brazilian interests –at the structural and cojunctural levelin its promoting of South American integration since 1993?; How did the Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs put South America in the top of its priorities?; Why the South American integration process lost part of its meaning in the Brazilian Foreign Policy again?