Idéias e instituições: uma reflexão sobre a política externa brasileira do início da década de 90 (original) (raw)

The article focuses on the Brazilian foreign policy under Collor’s administration. The main purpose of the study is to explain the relation of autonomy and/or control between the Presidency of the Republic and Itamaraty in the process of decision-making. The article supports the proposition that despite the initial period of liberal self-willingness of the presidential diplomacy, which had as consequence the exclusion of Itamaraty from the process of decision-making, the tradition of Itamaraty’s Globalist Paradigm had an important role in Ministry Celso Lafer’s proposal that the new international agenda should be dealt by the Brazilian diplomacy in a way that would conciliate the historical authority of the diplomatic institution with the dynamic of adaptation demanded by the post-Cold War’s new world order.