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Title:Brazil and Africa: geopolitics, trade, and technology in the South Atlantic
Author:Forrest, TomISNI
Year:1982
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:81
Issue:322
Pages:3-20
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
Brazil
Subjects:foreign policy
international trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/721502
Abstract:This essay sketches the evolution of Brazilian foreign policy and documents the build up of a Brazilian presence in Africa. Particular attention is given to Brazil's relations with Nigeria. Brazil's relations with Africa are not treated simply as the product of a sub-imperialism that reflects Brazil's intermediate position in a hierarchy of economic and power relations that extends from the United States at the centre to an African periphery. Sub-imperialism does not give Brazilian capital accumulation and state policy sufficient autonomy from multinational capital or US policy. Likewise, a simple dependency perspective fails to comprehend the dynamics of the Brazilian political economy. Brazil's policies and potential role in Africa need to be related to Brazilian national development, to relations with other potential continental powers like Nigeria and South Africa, as well as to imperialist rivalry and global capitalist development. Some of these issues are taken up in conclusion. The validity of some commonly held ideas about 'South-South' relations is also questioned. Notes, tab.
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