Institucionalização da Unasul: os casos de Brasil e Argentina

Abstract

In the context of foreign policy studies, this article makes a comparative study on the positions of two central actors in South America: Brazil and Argentina. Considering the historical trajectory of the relation and pointing out the difficulties that the two countries faced, we try to understand what are the differences and similarities between their actions, during the first decade of the 2000s, regarding regional integration. Specifically, it seeks to understand the process by which the formation of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) has taken place from the bias of Brazilian interests, and also from the Argentine perspective. In the end, it was understood that the domestic context, the international context and the foreign policy interests were crucial to the development of integration.