Cooperação descentralizada: a complexidade das atividades na faixa de fronteira do Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

This research will be treated the Decentralized Cooperation in border environments with a focus on the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and what role these subnational governments related to demands and the development of cities along border lines. The research then started with the following problem: What were the reasons for the difficulties encountered in the realization of subnational government integration programs? This way, the general objective was to identify decentralized cooperation in these territories as spaces for public and development policies, with a focus on the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. To this end, the first section of the paper was written to describe the challenges of Decentralized Cooperation on the basis of legal issue and legitimacy the representations of the federative units regarding the diplomacy exercised. The second served to develop the concepts of the frontier and the development that exist in those regions articulating with the twin cities. The third section was used to analyze the consequences that integration policies had for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and its twin cities. It started from the hypothesis articulating as a historical link that even with the transformations generated from a global process, border regions are still on the margins of discussions and decision-making processes for development. A basic descriptive research was then carried out through official documents and a case study on the benefits of the advances of this relationship of subnational governments.