Estudos Sul-Americanos (not translated)
Code
722071088
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Políticos
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Carmen Rodrigues Silva Fonseca
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To understand the main contemporary issues of South America;
b) To identify and understand the main actors, structures, processes and constraints involved in the strategies of international integration of South American countries;
c) To develop the skill to critically comprehend these issues through the analysis of case studies;
d) To understand the political and economic trends of the various countries of the region and to analyse them under a historical comparative perspective.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Introduction
1.1. The birth of the region
1.2. Political, security, economic and socio-cultural features
2. The political dimension
2.1. The nature of democracy
2.2. «Americas» in the South American context
3. The foreign policy(ies)
3.1. Comparative foreign policies
3.2. The main bilateral relations
4. The regional integration
4.1. Regionalism and the regional integration processes
5. The extra-regional relations
5.1. The US and the EU
5.2. The role of China
5.3. The role of the multilateral institutions
Bibliography
Burges, Sean W. (2007),Building a Global Southern Coalition: the competing approaches of Brazils Lula and Venezuelas Chávez, Third World Quarterly 28(7):1343-1358.
Buzan,Barry & Ole Waever (2003),Regions and Power.The structure of international security, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Cervo,Amado Luiz (2007),Relações internacionais da América Latina: velhos e novos paradigmas.São Paulo, Saraiva, 2007.
Cason, Jeffrey W. & Timothy J. Power (2009),Presidentialization, Pluralization, and the Rollback of Itamaraty: Explaining Change in Brazilian Foreign Policy Making in the Cardoso-Lula
Era,International Political Science Review 30(2):117-140.
Fawcett, Louise & Andrew Hurrell, eds.(1995),Regionalism in World Politics: Regional Organization and International Order, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Gardini, Gian Luca & Peter Lambert,eds (2011),Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism, Nova York, Palgrave Macmillan.
Teaching method
The curricular unity blends theoretical and practical methods, through combining lectures on the main topics with practical classes for the presentation and discussion of readings. This
methodology aims to give students the theoretical tools necessary for the analysis and evaluation of core aspects of South-American countries.
Evaluation method
Assessment:
1. Presentation of a text concerning a case study;
2. An individual written essay discussed in class.