| Revista: | Contexto internacional |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000448925 |
| ISSN: | 0102-8529 |
| Autores: | Castelan, Daniel1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina. Brasil |
| Año: | 2016 |
| Periodo: | Ene-Abr |
| Volumen: | 38 |
| Número: | 1 |
| Paginación: | 313-348 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Resumen en inglés | This paper proposes an explanation to the domestic coalitions organised in Brazil around the FTAA negotiations, which stand as a hard case for the existing theories on political cleavages: industrialists and trade unions, albeit having shared common interests in the negotiations, did not adopt a joint strategy to foster their positions. The hypothesis to explain the political alignments in the FTAA is that the opening of the Brazilian market, which had advanced a lot in the years of negotiations, altered the priorities of workers and employers, as well as their preferences in foreign trade policy, hindering the reconciliation of class interests. Both agreed that the U.S. proposal for the FTAA was undesirable, but they completely disagreed on other issues that emerged in the political agenda during the reforms period, such as the role of the State in an open economy, the scope of labour and social rights and the social security system, the structure of taxation, etc. Some of the controversial issues were not new, but the international trade liberalisation intensified the dispute over them |
| Disciplinas: | Relaciones internacionales |
| Palabras clave: | Política internacional, Relaciones económicas internacionales, Brasil, Comercio internacional, Relaciones comerciales, Libre comercio, Política exterior, Tratados comerciales, Coaliciones políticas |
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