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Why has Brazil traditionally adopted a defensive position in multilateral negotiations on trade in services? Three explanatory factors are typically used for understanding the domestic determinants of economic diplomacy: interests, institutions, and ideas. In this study, I assess the role of these variables in determining the Brazilian stance in the negotiations on trade in services in the Uruguay Round. I use archival evidence and interviews in a case study designed to recover the country's negotiating position throughout the round of negotiations, identify the preferences of relevant government and private actors, and reveal the mechanisms and loci of government-business interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes an analytical framework to describe and explain the political economy of Brazilian foreign economic relations in the Geisel administration. We use variables from the international system, considering how they interact with decision makers' ideas and perceptions, interbureaucratic disputes within the State apparatus, the domestic politics, and exogenous economic dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to scrutinize the growing participation of soybean in Brazilian agricultural exports. It is argued that this movement was not necessarily linked with an estrategy of export diversification of primary products pushed by Brazilian decision makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]