CPDOC debates Brazilian foreign policy during the Cold War at conference in Argentina

The professor Alexandre Moreli analyzed how Brazil sought greater integration in the international arena, besides the formation of a 'Latin Front after the Second World War and the creation of the United Nations.
Institutional
04 August 2014

The coordinator of the Center for International Relations based at the School of Social Sciences (FGV/CPDOC), Alexandre Moreli, presented the article Brazil's Struggle for a Third Power: The 'Latin Front', the Multilateral System, and the Cold War, 1946-1954 at the annual conference of the International Studies Association (ISA), in Argentina.Moreli discussed the drafting of the postwar strategy considering the cultural and economic influences on the ruling elite at the time, with special attention to the work conducted by the then Foreign Minister, João Neves da Fontoura. The professor analyzed how Brazil sought greater integration in the international arena, besides the formation of a 'Latin Front after the Second World War and the creation of the United Nations.The presentation of Moreli was part of the panel New Perspectives on Latin America's Cold War, mediated by Felipe Loureiro, of Universidade de São Paulo. The event - which took place on July 23-25 - was co-hosted by the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO), of Buenos Aires University, in Argentina.

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