A paradiplomacia como potencializadora do desenvolvimento local: um estudo de caso de Uberlândia - MG

Abstract

The present academic work has as its object of research the paradiplomacy in the city of Uberlândia - MG, and aims to understand how this phenomenon has the capacity to strengthen local development when elaborated and applied under the format of subnational foreign policy. The research is based on the hypothesis of that there is a need to develop a municipal foreign policy prior to the execution of practical paradiplomacy activities so that it is in fact capable of enhancing local development. Supported by the hypothetical-deductive method and the case study procedure, the concepts of paradiplomacy and local development as an endogenous process will be initially presented. Then these two subjects will be correlated and concatenated to the conception of strategic municipal foreign policy. Finally, the history and analysis of the semi-passive international action of the local government will be presented and how the municipal foreign policy of Uberlândia is still being developed, since the paradiplomatic actions developed by the local government from 2009 to 2020 were punctual, dispersed and without a strategic foundation, and it is possible to identify evidence of awareness of the need to reconcile and connect international activities with the city's vocations, its medium and long-term objectives and policies in a strategic way, only from the programs Inova Uberlândia (2017), Invista ( 2019) and development of the proposed twinning protocol for Israel in 2020.