A Política externa brasileira para os BRICS: possibilidades e dificuldades de articulação para a cooperação em ciência, tecnologia e inovação

Abstract

This study sought to investigate general aspects involving international cooperation, more precisely the called South-South Cooperation, and within this scope, analyze Brazilian foreign policy for the BRICS (acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) with regard to cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation. That way, we work in a first moment with a theoretical debate about why states cooperate, dialoguing between realism and liberal institutionalism and concluding it is a rational choice; still in the first chapter, the term BRICS is worked, proving the importance of these countries in the international system, as well as the evolving relationship "intrabloc". The second part works with the Theory of Economic Development and the National Innovation Systems of BRICS, performing a mapping of action possibilities of Brazil through articulation via BRICS in relation to innovation in science and technology, emerging the hypothesis of the "State-entrepreneur". Indeed, we reach the last chapter with the hypothesis that emerges during the research and development of the work that would be the Brazil transiting to a new economic dependence at the international level, moving from the U.S. to China. We conclude that, because it is a strategic sector of a State, and not be of interest to countries with technological development more advanced that the International Division of Labor change is not through this strategy that foreign policy should be guided to Brazil, should review its position in relation to its economic output matrix.