Brazil-Africa relations in the 21st century : from surge to downturn and beyond / Mathias Alencastro, Pedro Seabra, editors.
Alencastro Mathias, editor.; Seabra, Pedro, editor.
2020
F2523.5.A4 B73 2020
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Title Brazil-Africa relations in the 21st century : from surge to downturn and beyond / Mathias Alencastro, Pedro Seabra, editors.
ISBN 9783030557201 (electronic bk.)
3030557200 (electronic bk.)
3030557197
9783030557195
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55720-1
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-55720-1 doi
Call Number F2523.5.A4 B73 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.810609/04
Summary This is the first book to analyse the full cycle of rise and fall of Brazil's foreign policy towards Africa in the beginning of the 21st century. During his government, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) made the drive towards Africa one of the cornerstones of Brazilian diplomacy and cooperation. In a bid to build strategic trading partnerships with African counterparts, Lula's government committed itself to an ambitious program centred on provisions in loans and credits as well as the exponential growth of its South-South cooperation. After Lula, however, this drive towards Africa started to decline and finally collapsed in face of political meltdown in Brazil and the proliferation of controversial judicial investigations that directly involved political leaders at the centre of most initiatives undertook in the 2000s. The rise and fall of Brazil-Africa relations has provoked much discussion in policy-making, as well as scholarly research. This book seeks to provide valuable resources to the study of this process by presenting empirically based and updated analysis from different perspectives, such as: The diplomatic tradition of Brazil-Africa relations The role played by Brazilian big private companies in Africa Brazilian health cooperation with African countries The participation of civil society in Brazil-Africa relations Brazil-Africa trade relations Military cooperation between Brazil and Africa Brazil's drive to Africa left a durable mark, whose implications are yet to be understood. What were its main successes and failures? And what does the dramatic change of events, with Brazil moving from a pivotal player to an almost invisible one in merely half a decade, tell us about South-South cooperation? These are some of the questions that Brazil-Africa Relations in the 21st Century - From Surge to Downturn and Beyond intends to answer in order to provide a useful resource for Political Science and International Relations scholars interested in the study of South-South relations, as well as for policy makers interested in understanding the changing dynamics of International Relations in the wake of the 21st century.-- Provided by publisher.
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Intro
Foreword: Africa Is Here
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: Turnaround and Let-Down - Making Sense of Brazil and Africa after the Surge
1 Book Outline
2 Chapter Outline
References
The Longue Durée of Brazil-Africa Relations (c. 1450-1960)
1 Introduction
2 The Portuguese Slave-Trading Monopoly in the Long Sixteenth Century (c. 1450-1640)
3 Atlantic Systems in the Long Eighteenth Century (c. 1640-1807)
4 Independent Brazil and the Making of the Contraband Slave Trade (1808-1850)

5 Disengagement, Persistence and Imagination (1851-1960)
5.1 The Weight of the Past
References
From Opportunity Seeking to Gap Filling: Reframing Brazil in Lusophone Africa
1 Introduction
2 How to Perceive Brazil in Africa
3 How to Perceive Brazil vs. Portugal in Africa
4 Dealing with the Aftermath of the 2012 Coup in Guinea-Bissau
5 The Adhesion of Equatorial Guinea to the CPLP
6 Reframing Brazil in Lusophone Africa
7 Conclusion
References
Brazilian Trade with Sub-Saharan Africa (2000-2018)
1 Introduction
2 Exploring the Causes for Trade Growth

3 Depth of Trade Integration
4 Politics of Trade
5 Concluding Remarks
References
Economic Diplomacy, Lula Style: The Case of Odebrecht in Angola
1 Introduction
2 Lula and Angola: A "Key in Hands" Operation
3 Angola: Appropriating Brazil
4 Conclusion
References
Brazil's Boom and Bust in Tanzania: A Case Study of Naivety?
1 Introduction
2 Agency Versus Structural Factors in Africa's Emerging Power Relations
2.1 Explaining Brazil-Africa Relations
2.1.1 Structural Determinants
2.1.2 Presidential and Corporate Agency

2.1.3 Naivety in Brazil's Relations with Africa
3 Case Study of Tanzania
3.1 History and Development Cooperation Projects
3.2 Private Sector Infrastructure Projects
3.2.1 Odebrecht in Tanzania
3.2.2 Queiroz Galvão in Tanzania
3.3 Misreading the Tanzanian State
4 Conclusion
References
Brazilian Health Cooperation in Africa: A Case Study of Promoting Pharmaceutical Production in Mozambique
1 Introduction
2 The Brazilian Domestic Response in Addressing HIV/ AIDS
3 Brazilian South-South Health Cooperation in Addressing HIV/AIDS

4 Brazilian South-South Cooperation and the ARV Factory in Mozambique
4.1 Early Brazilian Initiatives to Address HIV/AIDS in Mozambique
4.2 The Negotiations Associated with the Factory
5 Conclusion
References
Participation, Critical Support and Disagreement: Brazil-Africa Relations from the Prism of Civil Society
1 Introduction
2 Civil Society Engagement in Brazil-Africa Relations in the Twenty-First Century
3 Unpacking Brazilian Civil Society Engagement: Actors, Issues and Modes of Engagement
3.1 Engaging Brazil-Africa Relations at Home and Abroad: The Who and the How

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