Political Effects Of Brazil

BRAZIL IN WORLD AFFAIRS AND THE EFFECT ON REGIONALISM
HISTORY
The Europeans arrived in Brazil in the 16th century. The First European to arrive in Brazil was Pedro Alves Cabral on April 22nd 1500,he was a Portuguese and therefore Brazil became a colony of Portugal from the 16th century to the 18th century. The country declared independence on September 7th, 1822 and since then the country has seen a different number of governments ever since. These include;
• A republican government, which was established after a military coup in 1889.
• The country has also seen two dictatorships. (1930-1934) and (1937-1945).
• It has even gone through a period of military rule from 1964-1985.
After the military rule ended in 1985 Brazil became a democracy
Due to its big size it occupies nearly half of the south American continent and borders all but two of other south American states . Its total estimated population by 2014 was 202,768,5622 which is the 5th largest population in the world and has a density of 23.8/ sq. km. It is currently a federal presidential constitutional republic and their current president is Dilma Rousseff, who is one of the few females to have held the presidential office in all countries across the globe. Brazil has always had policies to relate with the rest of the world. During most of the 20th century the country would stick to a course of conduct which was, an almost isolationist policy, which means that they would mainly keep to themselves and not really associate with other states. Together with this isolation policy they also interspersed with sporadic automatic alignments with major western powers, its main economic partners, in moments of high turbulence. An example of this would be the way the country backed up the allied forces during the world war two by providing naval assistance. However due to their isolation policy they did not really participate in the war. However, the Brazilian foreign policy today has changed. In a speech given in 2003 by then president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during an economic forum, in which he said that “Our foreign policy is firmly oriented towards the
It is an acronym for Mercado Común del Sur in Español, Mercado Comum do Sul in Portuguese and Southern Common Market in English. Brazilian foreign policy supports economic and political integration efforts in order to reinforce long-standing relationships with its neighbours. This bloc makes economic integration possible between Brazil and her neighbours. Its headquarters are in Montevideo and observer countries are New Zealand and Mexico. Besides Brazil the bloc also carries Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. As mentioned earlier Brazil are not exactly zealous in this bloc trading at only 205 which is low but never the less constant.
Brazil and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
It was an agreement signed by many countries of the Americas in 1947 in Rio. This agreement simply states that an attack on one of these countries is an attack on all of them. It had no economic basis. This helped settle squabbles in the South American continent in the Instances of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Falklands War. It was a political block where decisions on burning issues could be solved.
Latin American Integration