Artigo



Dados vol. 33 n. 2 Rio de Janeiro 1990

Declínio e Hegemonia da Industrialização: O Conflito Brasil Estados Unidos na Indústria de Informática

Evans, Peter

Resumo

Alternative explanations for the formation of U.S. foreign economic policy are explored using the acrimonious but inconclusive conflict between the United States and its largest South American ally over Brazil's restrictive policies toward the computer industry. After comparing a "post-dependency/bargaining perspective", the "theory of hegemonic stability" and Krasner's "structural conflict" model, the paper argues that systemic perspectives on foreign economic policy must be complemented by an account of the interaction between the effects of international position and the dynamics of domestic politics. The resulting "politicized state-centric approach': which integrates interest-based politics and ideologically defined state aims, is proposed as a means of more fully understanding the dilemmas of a declining hegemon.

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