South South co-operation in the new international scenarios: the case of Argentina’s and Brazil’s foreign policies towards Africa and South Africa

LECHINI, GLADYS

La Habana

Conferencia; XXI CLACSO General Assembly, III Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Conference; 2003

south/south program of CLACSO

The idea of renewing south-south co-operation has appeared again in the agendas of some states, with modifications according to the past experiences and the new times. The aim of this work is analyze a new selective co-operation in terms of actors and themes is arising and looks to be feasible. Thus, it is possible to progress in functional co-operation in fields like democracy, social justice, development, trade, investment, the environmental and security problems, taking advantages of all opportunities in the sphere of bilateral and multilateral relations and aiming at gradually building a community of like-minded countries, through a critical dialogue and a better mutual understanding. Referring to Argentina’s and Brazil’s Foreign Policies towards African states is located within this general framework and aims at promoting avenues of research within South South co-operation.