O muro, as torres e a adoção do paradigma neoliberal

Abstract

This article intends to analyze the motivations that take the Brazilian foreign policy, during the nineties of the past century, to abandon a tradition that came since the beginning of the Vargas Government, in which the development was it great guide, for adopting the neoliberal paradigm, in order to identify which options the then conjuncture offered. For that this article employs the Hermann model of analyzes. It concludes that, even though the conjuncture induced strongly to the adoption of the neoliberal paradigm, there were different alternatives in what concerns the intensity of the adherence to their canons.