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This paper will discuss the challenges of Open Acess publishing in the area of the Humanities in Latin America, using the Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI), which was founded in 1958 by the Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais and which constitutes the most influential Brazilian publication on International Relations and a leading publication on the subject in Latin America, as a case study. This paper will explain how the RBPI, which has been OA since 2007, has adapted to this new scholarly environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the multilateral trading system's restraining role regarding the adoption of barriers to trade in goods and services as a reaction to the global economic and financial crisis. The paper analyses measures implemented by Brazil and other G20 countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the fundamentals and the nature of educational cooperation engaged between the United States and Brazil in the last decade. The argument is that the bilateral cooperation in education, research and development, traditional and somehow sophisticated, surpassed the level of a simple collaboration, and evolves into a multidimensional relationship, shaped as a "strategic partnership". It took place as a consequence of the densification of the programs, and diversification of funding modalities, but specially as a result of the growing importance assumed by the main actors involved -- Fulbright Commission and Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades some trends have been intensified in the international trade. The main objective of this paper is to analyze these trends and the international insertion of Brasil in the globalization process. The methodology used was to compare the evolution of quantitative and qualitative data of the G-20 countries with Brazil. The results indicate that the insertion of Brazil does not follow recent changes and trends in international trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a growing literature on what is considered a process of "horizontalization" of Brazilian Foreign Policy. This paper aims to discuss some bases of this thesis in order to contribute theoretically and methodologically for the strengthening of the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals the 100 years of publication of A Defeza Nacional Review. The periodical was involved at the start of its activities, in the discussion by the choice of the foreign mission which may assist in modernizing the Brazilian army. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes international negotiations related to international military technology cooperation speci- fically the case of Aeronautics between Brazil and France, under the focus of two theories: Negotiation and International Technical Cooperation. Based on these approaches, the process of bilateral negotiation according to the international economic situation is analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand Brazilian trade negotiations strategy in the last decades, which has combined priority to trade multilateralism with preferential trade negotiations with different scopes and timings with countries inside and outside South America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a general analysis of the relations among United States and Latin America considering issues such as the questioning of the US centrality globally and in the hemisphere, Brazil's policies to the region and the impact of the growing relations with China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper submits to critique the Brazilian proposal to create a new paradigm for international cooperation from its role in MINUSTAH. We compare some aspects of Brazilian projects in Haiti with U.S. projects. We analyzed documents of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to discuss the notion of subimperialism in the understanding of Brazilian expansionism. The objective is to point to the limits of the concept of Ruy Mauro Marini, making comments about the monopolistic capitalism in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper search to show that the choice over juridical regime to energetic economy does not link to political regimes from countries, but belongs to questions more importants than mentioned here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to briefly describe the start and evolution of the indigenous peoples' rights theme in the international organizations' agenda -- International Labor Organization, World Bank and United Nations -- and its counterpart in Brazil, focusing on the judicial decision about the land Raposa Serra do Sol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to understand the current political situation in Paraguay referred to the recent installation of state of emergency in border regions with Brazil from a structural view of the problem of organized crime that plagued the structures of the neighboring country along its history and causes serious impacts on the economic structure and security in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine China's role in Brazilian foreign trade. Its main argument lies in the fact that China has become Brazil's biggest trading partner, a situation that accounts for more than a simple shift of hierarchy, but represents a transformation in their bilateral relations and in the very international system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to analyse the concept and the use of strategy in the international araise. The paper has also the objetive to study the importance of strategy to Brazil and its role to development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the relations between Brazil and Central American countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]