Africa and South America (South Africa, Argentina and Brazil). Lessons for South-South Cooperation

LECHINI, GLADYS

African Review

MD Publication

Lugar: New Delhi; Año: 2009 vol. 1 p. 73 - 86

0974-4053

Historically, relations between Latin America and Africa have gone through periods of rapprochement and also through mute stages. These ups and downs were and still are closely related to domestic situations and to international and regional ones. Before dealing with the cases under study -Argentina and Brasil toward Africa-, the author briefly comment on some similarities between the two regions as well as on some characteristic of the horizontal relation. As conclusion it shows that “South-South Cooperation” could create cooperative awareness from the South, which may enable countries to jointly tackle their common dilemmas in the international arena. In front of situations seen as unfair,  cooperation among peers, among those enduring the same dependency situations, would help them underpin their negotiating capacity vis-à-vis the North, through  cooperative efforts aimed at solving issues on trade, development, and the new international economic order. En version papel y online