Mozambique-Brazil Relations: pragmatism in the approach to emerging economies

Abstract

The object of the paper is the relations between states, in actual international scenario where the prevalence of neorealism and neoliberal paradigms has determined that the hard agenda is disregarded in benefit of the soft agenda, to which are linked social and economic thematic, the foreign politic assume his relevant role in scrutinizing the partners, the objectives, or the problems to be solved, in a chain that, in the case of developing countries vis a vis the developed ones, the medium and long term desiderate, is the reduction of asymmetric interdependency in a way to mutual dependency or mutual benefices of the internal groups involved in the decision making process, and if there is any disparity in the benefices, the same groups promote foreign politic change, through regime change or change in the direction until then followed by the foreign politic, acting by officers, or in process and stages level, concepts around them the paper is developed, in two moments, firstly by currents of thought enrolment, and secondly carrying out the foreign politic analyses, both followed by the case study, as the title.