Bras. Political Sci. Rev.2007;1(2):217-23.
The United States and Brazil: A Long Road of Unmet Expectations
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3835200700020007
The relationship with the United States has been a central element of Brazil’s foreign policy since the early 20th century. What shaped the two paradigms that guided Brazil’s international insertion until the late 1980s — the americanist paradigm and the globalist paradigm — were relations with the USA (; ; ).
For the americanist paradigm, the approximation, cooperation and understanding were justified not only for pragmatic reasons, given the emergence of the USA as a power hub in the Americas and the world at the start of the 20th century, but also due to a set of beliefs that expressed the admiration for the liberal political system and economic development of that country, and the view that the USA and Brazil participated in similar histories vis- à-vis their Hispanic neighbours, which made them the “odd men out” (, 99) and destined to become close.
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