• Home
  • Haroldo Ramanzini Junior
Haroldo Ramanzini Junior

Haroldo Ramanzini Junior

About

60
Publications
7,607
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
358
Citations

Publications

Publications (60)
Article
Observam-se, nas últimas décadas, avanços significativos na dimensão substantiva e no aspecto metodológico das pesquisas desenvolvidas no campo de análise de política externa e de política externa brasileira. Entretanto, ainda subsistem lacunas, do ponto de vista da elaboração de instrumentos, tipologias e análises mais diretamente focadas nas dime...
Chapter
This chapter’s aim is to analyze the manner in which some schools of thought, represented by significant figures, perceive Brazil and the issue of regional integration. We focus on the second half of the twentieth century and seek to understand the different conceptions of the country’s regional and international project, which define the possible...
Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the process of Latin American integration, with special attention to the Brazilian positions, seeking to understand the elements of continuity and change between the policy of the first years of the Republic, proclaimed in 1889, and the first decade of the twenty-first century. We trace the roots of the Brazili...
Chapter
Within the introduction of this book, we raised three questions related to Brazilian foreign policy regarding regional integration more broadly, and Mercosur in particular. The rationale behind this evolution exists and has not been connected to specific political forces. In Chap. 4, as we examined the origins of the concept of South America, we de...
Chapter
The goal of this chapter is to analyze the Brazilian foreign policy towards the integration and cooperation process in South America, discussing Mercosur, Unasur, and CELAC, as well as hemispheric initiatives, particularly regarding the OAS and the United States. We will discuss to what degree the increase and the weakening of the Brazilian effecti...
Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to analyse the significance of Mercosur for Brazilian foreign policy. To this end, we discuss the perceptions of the Brazilian elites concerning the regional integration process. The defence of the principle of intergovernmentalism is related to the conception of Mercosur’s place within Brazil’s international relations. T...
Chapter
This chapter’s goal is to analyze the political and economic international aspects which have influenced the Brazilian positions in relation to the process of South American regional integration, particularly regarding Mercosur during the 1990s and the beginning of the twenty-first Century. The dynamics within the international system and the evolu...
Chapter
The debate about how to spur a higher degree of civil society involvement in the Mercado Comum do Sul (Mercosur) and within Brazilian foreign policy has developed intensely during the 1990s and until 2016. This chapter seeks to engage with the changes that have taken place within the social field during the 2000s. As a way to understand the partici...
Article
This article aims to examine regional parliaments of two prominent regional organisations in South America (Southern Common Market) and Western Africa (Economic Community of West African States), by focusing on their performance in the agenda of democracy protection. We comparatively assess the performance of regional parliamentary agents in contri...
Article
The aim of this article is to analyse the involvement of civil society in regional integration organizations through a comparative analysis of social/civil society channels in the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). We seek to analyse the level of openness and the trajectory of both blocs in rela...
Article
This article analyses how the issue of democracy protection has been incorporated into South American regionalism. It shows the motivation for building Democracy Clauses in regionalism and identify the challenges for its implementation. From 1985 to 2008, there was a progressive insertion of instruments related to democracy protection. Between 2009...
Article
Full-text available
Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é analisar o Mercosul na política externa brasileira no período de 1991 a 2021. Argumentaremos que há uma trajetória de gradual perda de centralidade do bloco para a política externa brasileira e de redução nos níveis de intercâmbio comercial. Assim, o declínio da prioridade do bloco para o Brasil, observado nos gover...
Book
Full-text available
No ano de 2020, o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Relações Internacionais do Instituto de Economia e Relações Internacionais (IERI) da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) completou cinco anos. Neste período, o Programa se constituiu como um dos centros emergentes, tanto na pesquisa, quanto na formação em Relações Internacionais no país. Assim, tr...
Article
Full-text available
This essay reviews the following works: Teerã, Ramalá e Doha: Memórias da política externa ativa e altiva. By Celso Amorim. São Paulo: Benvirá, 2015. Pp. 520. R$44.00 paperback. ISBN: 9788582401712. Brazil and Latin America: Between the Separation and Integration Paths. By Jose Briceño-Ruiz and Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano. Lanham, MD: Lexington Boo...
Article
The aim of this article is to analyse the performance of regionalism in the Global South through a comparative analysis of Mercosur and Ecowas with regard to the trade and democracy protection agendas, by contrasting their institutional design and regional leadership concerning the two issues. Firstly, it analyses the evolution of intra-regional tr...
Article
The aim of this article is to compare Unasur and the African Union with regard to their institutional structure, agenda and performance. Although some scholars have made comparative assessments of regional institutions in the same region or comparisons between regional projects worldwide and the European Union, there are still few academic contribu...
Article
O texto analisa o tema do regionalismo na América Latina com foco nas posições do Brasil. Avalia que as transformações e indefinições no sistema internacional colocam para o país a pertinência de um engajamento regional propositivo e multidimensional.ABSTRACTThe paper analyzes the issue of regionalism in Latin America with focus on brazilian foreig...
Article
Full-text available
Does the regional environment shape a state's international socialization and, thus, its perception on external affairs? If this is the case, how does such a process happen and what are the consequences for a state's global foreign policy? We tackle both questions by elaborating an analytical framework that accounts for spatial-temporal interaction...
Article
Full-text available
This article sets out to discuss the foreign policy of Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014) in relation to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). It examines the direction Brazil wanted that organization to go in when the scope of such South American institutions was widened to formally include new sectors -defense, infrastructure and finance- in regi...
Article
Full-text available
Apresentação geral do Dossiê Desafios e Caminhos do Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão em Relações Internacionais no Brasil.
Article
Citizens and activists in Brazil were optimistic about their role in shaping public policies after the democratic wave of the 1980s, particularly in the field of international trade negotiations. Observers point out that the state is more open than in previous decades and that Itamaraty (the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) is losing its grip...
Article
Full-text available
Este artigo apresenta as demandas crescentes sobre o Ministério das Relações Exteriores do Brasil (Itamaraty) para abrir as suas portas para outros atores. Esta discussão será seguida de uma análise teórica e metodológica relevante. Vamos defender a necessidade de superar problemas relacionados a: 1) imprecisão sobre o conceito de participação; 2)...
Article
Full-text available
Este artigo busca compreender melhor como a participação do Brasil no sistema GATT/OMC influenciou as linhas gerais política externa brasileira. Para tanto, a análise está centrada na atuação brasileira nas coalizões agrícolas, a partir das experiências vividas no Grupo de Cairns (Rodada Uruguai) e na coalizão G-20 Comercial (Rodada Doha), assim co...
Article
Full-text available
O objetivo do texto é discutir o processo de integração latino-americano, com atenção especial às posições brasileiras, visando compreender os elementos de continuidade entre a política dos primeiros anos da República, particularmente o período do Barão do Rio Branco (1902-1912), e a atualidade. Buscam-se as raízes remotas da política brasileira em...
Article
Full-text available
As relações bilaterais Brasil-China: uma relação em processo de afirmação | 165 CARTA INTERNACIONAL Publicação da Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais As relações bilaterais Brasil-China: uma relação em processo de afirmação Brazil-China bilateral relations: a relationship in an affirmation process Resumo O presente artigo analisa a evo...
Article
Full-text available
The aim of this article is to analyze the current dynamics of South American integration and the role played by Brazil in the region. The formation of UNASUR evidences the projection of new themes and issues in regional cooperation, among which, the dimensions of security, infrastructure and financing. The projection of these issues opens up the po...
Book
Full-text available
The book contains important contribuitions on different themes of Contemporary International Relations and its new approaches, such as International Relations Theory, Hegemony, Brazilian Foreign Policy, China and Human Rights. O livro contém contribuições importantes sobre diferentes temas de Relações Internacionais Contemporâneas e as suas novas...
Article
The purpose of this text is to examine the actions taken by the Brazilian Government in the G-20 coalition, within the context of the Doha Round of the WTO, the main focus being to understand the domestic decision-making process that led to the formulation of Brazil's positions within the coalition.We seek to understand to what extent Brazilian for...
Chapter
This chapter aims to discuss Latin American integration, with special attention to the Brazilian position, in order to understand the elements of continuity between the foreign policy of the first years of the Republic of Brazil, particularly from 1902 to 1912, when José Maria da Silva Paranhos Júnior, known as the Baron of Rio Branco, was Brazil’s...
Article
Full-text available
This article analyzes developing countries performance at the World Trade Organization (WTO) accordingly to two aspects: developing country coalitions and developing country participation in the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB). The authors conclude that developing countries use institutional mechanisms as their main strategy in order to increase thei...
Article
Full-text available
Our goal here is to analyze the construction of what we refer to as the "Mercosul model" that can be identified within Brazilian foreign politics, from the beginning of the 1990s through the second half of the decade of 2000. Starting from the premise that the positions that Brazil takes are relevant in defining the framework of integration process...
Article
Full-text available
O objetivo deste trabalho consiste em analisar a construção do que chamamos de “modelo de Mercosul” presente na política externa brasileira, desde o início da década de 1990 até a segunda metade da década de 2000. Partindo do pressuposto de que as posições do Brasil têm um papel relevante na definição do arcabouço do processo de integração, a hipót...
Article
The aim of this article is to analyse the meaning of Mercosur for Brazilian foreign policy. To this end, we discuss the perceptions of the Brazilian elites concerning the regional integration process. The defence of the principle of inter-governmentalism is related to the conception of Mercosur's place within Brazil's international relations. The f...
Article
This article aims to analyze the impact of domestic politics and international changes that influence Brazilian positions regarding regional integration processes in South America, particularly the Southern Common Market, Mercosur. The dynamics of the international system and their impact on the evolution of the elite's perception of the role the c...
Article
Full-text available
The aim of this article is to analyze the way some schools of thought represented by persons of renown look upon the issue of regional integration in Brazil. The focus is on the second half of the 20th century, seeking to understand the conceptions of the country's regional and international projection that ground the possibilities for integration....
Article
An important characteristic of the current international setting is the crisis of the structure in existence, rather than the emergence of a new order. The rise of new interests and demands, as well as the speed of the transformation make the current understanding of global governance more complex. Brazil, like other medium powers, has an interest...
Article
Full-text available
The objective of this article is to analyse brazilian foreign policy during Lula’s da Silva government (2003-2010). The search to project the country as a protagonist actor in the international system and to fortify the multilateralism had been defining elements of the brazilian foreign policy. Despite these are not totaly new objectives in the his...
Article
Full-text available
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar os aspectos políticos e econômicos internacionais que influenciam as posições brasileiras em relação aos processos de integração regional na América do Sul, particularmente do Mercosul nos anos noventa e no início do século XXI. A dinâmica do sistema internacional e a evolução que produziu na percepção das elite...
Article
Full-text available
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o significado do Mercosul para a política exterior do Brasil. Para isso, discutiremos as percepções das elites brasileiras em relação ao processo de integração regional. A defesa do princípio da intergovernamentalidade está ligada à concepção do lugar do Mercosul nas relações internacionais do país. A grande val...
Article
Full-text available
The aim of this article is to analyse the role of Mercosur for the Brazilian foreign policy. We will discuss the perception of the Brazilian elites concerning the regional integration process. The defense of the principle of intergovernmentalism is related to the conception of Mercosur's place in the set of Brazilian international relations. The hu...

Network

Cited By