El MERCOSUR en la estrategia de Poder Global Brasileña (2003-2010)

Abstract

espanolEn estas lineas presentaremos la dinamica de cooperacion hegemonica que signo la relacion de Brasil con la region suramericana durante la administracion Da Silva. Este objetivo nos insumira algunos desarrollos intermedios: en primer lugar, revisaremos la tan usual denominacion del perfil ‘realista’ de la politica exterior, para clasificarla como una estrategia de acumulacion de poder externo en clave de power politics (y no de realpolitik) con componentes privativos (autonomia, diplomacia presidencial y autopercepcion). En segundo lugar, y a fines argumentales, presentaremos la manera en que Brasil estructura esa estrategia de acumulacion, por medio de un constructo analitico que denominamos ‘estrategia de poder global brasilena’. Dentro de esta carrera -que excede la subregion-, haremos foco en el MERCOSUR para mostrar la superficialidad de la cooperacion hegemonica del pais vecino. Esto constituye un nuevo rol para la integracion regional suramericana, impreso por la decision de politica exterior global de su miembro mas poderoso. EnglishIn this article we will focus on the Brazilian hegemonic cooperation towards South American integration in Da Silva’s administration. To reach this before we must discuss two things: for one hand, to revisit the largely point out Brazilian foreign policy as ‘realist’ to resignify it as an accumulation power strategy in a power politics matrix (and not a realpolitik one). This profile has had its very specific characteristics: autonomy, presidential diplomacy and a determined self-perception. For other hand, we need to show the Brazilian way to structure that accumulation strategy through an analytical construct that we denominated ‘Brazilian global power strategy’ -a decision that largely exceeds the South American regional space-. In this sense, we will make a zoom just to the MERCOSUR to, finally, point out the superficial kind of hegemonic cooperation that our regional neighbor had implemented in those years. Thus, MERCOSUR ended up in a completely new role absorbed in -and at the service of- the global interests of the most powerful member.