Brazilian society went through a delicate and profound electoral process, which is now beginning to present its true facets. Countless discussions seek to make sense of the endless speculations at the most diverse political levels: who will form the ministerial staff of the Lula government? Will the policies adopted be the same or will they be radically different?? We are really seeing the beginning of something new or the same presented in a new way?
The true fruits of this tree will only come in mid-autumn. 2004, However, we will still have a harvest in 2003, which will be a hybrid between a tree already planted (conservative modernization) and a new (progressive modernization).
National and international movements are indicative of changes to come, but it is necessary to ask ourselves whether they will be stronger here in Brazil or in an international scenario that is showing its first signs of systemic exhaustion. When we take the case of President Fernando Henrique, we see the profound distance between internal practices and external discourse. It was easier for the president to find audiences thirsty for beautiful speeches than international forums capable of solving problems that afflict humanity..
Not international system, words and images have their own readings that modify their concrete and, oftentimes, it completely disconnects them from the reality from which they come. It is through this reinterpretation that international relations gain profile and find their normative limits. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have gone through a phase of analytical insecurity, effected in the continued use of the terms “post-Cold War” and “globalization” – empty in themselves, do not express more than uncertain references to a known past.
Even though there is no consensus on a “founding moment” for the current period, Some speeches and events point to the exhaustion of a model centered on the radical primacy of the monetary dimension of the economy over practically all fields of human action. From Nobel laureate Amartya Sem to IMF managing director, Horst Köhler, speeches about the new face that the international economic system must gain indicate a trend combined with the speech of president-elect Lula. Regardless of whether or not he complies with the project presented during the election campaigns, your strength – to the field of international relations – lies in the prospect of having been elected in a country that claims to be a middle power that presents precisely a discourse of rupture.
The care offered by heads of state of important countries to the future Brazilian president is also a sign that the world is keeping an eye on what is happening in Brazil. land brazil. We must certainly avoid our tendency to overestimate Brazil’s importance on the international stage., However, We must keep in mind that speech is a fundamental piece in the understanding of any government.
Moral of the hist & oacute; ria: a spoken adjective is better than a executed verb.
Council Liter & aacute; rio:
“The confusion was made worse by the readiness of other countries to imitate the Anglo-Saxon world, repeating your slogans. In the fifteen years after the First World War, all the great powers have repeatedly flattered the doctrine, by declaring peace as one of the main objectives of their policies”
Edward Hallett Carr – Twenty years of crisis: 1919-1939
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Year II – N. 18 – December 2002
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