Atores subnacionais e suas agendas nas relações internacionais: a captação de recursos através do projeto Capibaribe Melhor e a gestão internacional da cidade do Recife - PE

Abstract

The contemporary International Relations concentrating means and processes leaving the current course of globalization, as: scientific-technical revolution, domestication of international relations, increasing participation in the international, subnational governments (regions, states, cities, counties, provinces, governments sites in general), with noticeable fiscal decentralization and political power of the Nation-States. An important issue, but outside the mainstream of International Relations, is paradiplomacy, which has ancient roots and is gaining new proportions nowadays, through international cooperation processes decentralized, a phenomenon emphasizing systems of government with political decentralization of power, that provide greater or lesser degree of openness to international foray of the Non-Central Governments (NCG). This dissertation seeks to address foreign affairs of municipal governments in Brazil, focusing on the concept of Local International Management, but also highlights the financial cooperation through external funding. In this process, we observe the construction of an agenda of local municipal interests on the international level, putting into perspective Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco, which has an International Relations Coordination, and the Capibaribe Melhor Project, highlighting for external funding, in this case, with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - IBRD. This study aims to show empirically the treatment of international integration of federal Brazilian Federal Government and paradiplomacy in Northeastern Brazil, a heterogeneous process of projection international of the cities, but which strengthens the perception of an endogenous local development. To meet this goal, the theoretical dimension have contributions from researchers in the area and a discussion around the federalist and sociological vision, the first of which provides a more concerted contribution to the existence of the conceptual term paradiplomacy and its influence on classical diplomacy and second examines a reflexive debate over the role of cities internationally. As a result, research shows that both Local International Management and financial cooperation lead time and contribute to a process that is permeated by the political will of the actor involved in the dynamics. In Recife was no different, with their respective International Relations Coordination which in turn shows up as a channel for international cooperation, administering therefore international relations of the municipality. Another equally important result is the external funding, in which the interference of the Brazilian government, the will of the subnational entity in realizing local development and financial cooperation, the international actor of making resources available to the municipality, which contributed to a normalization of international financial cooperation in the country and the responsibility of commitments to the international financial institution, by the federalist entity. Finally, All this explanation, may corroborate to give more emphasize to the municipal paradiplomacy in the country, by the example of the city of Recife.