The article exposes the Brazilian government thought and Brazilian external trade policy between 1930 and nowadays. Three verifications of Brazilian Diplomacy have conditioned Brazilian decision-making process: doctrines do not guide the practice of great powers, an emergent country disposes of little power in multilateral fora, radical liberal experiences do not produce the effects proclaimed by their indoctrinators. For this reason, the international trade policy avoided to obey the major principles and models, orienting itself with growing realism. It has been historicaly developed as an instrument to reinforce the internal economy and market, and it has evolved based on a contradictory strategy that protected the internal market and cried out for global markets openning. On the 90's, it has ceded to globalization tendencies, but not before it had extended introspection to the broaden regional market, Mercosul.
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