Brasil e os grandes PALOP: uma análise comparativa da política externa do governo Geisel, Figueiredo e Sarney (1974-1990)

Abstract

The present research has as main objective to analyze comparatively the relations between Brazil and the “Great PALOP”, developed during the governments Geisel, Figueiredo and Sarney. Taking into account that the Brazilian foreign policy from 1974 began to revalue the Portuguese Africa in its agenda. In this sense, the research problem will be about identifying whether there was a difference between the Brazilian foreign policy for Angola and Mozambique. The hypothesis raised by the research understands that there was no difference in the Brazilian foreign policy, during the governments Geisel, Figueiredo and Sarney for Angola and Mozambique. The Brazilian international action aimed to maintain and expand a maneuvering space that would enable the country to increase its capacity for negotiation and global projection. In this sense, the Third Worldist position assumed within the matrix of national foreign policy a tactical economic bias and not political ideological. Therefore, the Brazilian foreign policy for Angola and Mozambique from 1974 to 1990 was not differentiated, since both States in that period were seen as potential partnerships that would favor the developmentalist project of Brazil. However, economic and political trends, as well as regional dynamics, influenced the possibilities of national diplomacy in Angola and Mozambique, making it assume different emphases and intensities for each of these states.