‘Two Brazils’: Renegotiating Subalternity Through South-South Cooperation in Angola

South-South Cooperation: Brazilian experiences in South America and Africa.

Over recent years Brazil has played an increasingly active role internationally, the result of its model of integration and its foreign policy directives. The health sector is a valuable and strategic area for Brazilian technical cooperation to achieve various objectives, including its development goals. This article describes the main directives of Brazilian foreign policy, conceptually defini...

Unlocking the Potential of South-south Cooperation Policy Recommendations from the Task Team on South-south Cooperation

Promoting South-south and North-south Cooperation in Education and Research: a Question of Responsibility

I would first like to thank the Pontifical Academy of Sciences for once again inviting me to participate in one of its very stimulating workshops, and for giving me yet another opportunity to speak before such a distinguished group of intellectuals. I was here three years ago for a workshop examining the cultural values of science. The inspiring presentations – and equally inspiring discussions...

South-south Economic Cooperation: Motives, Problems and Possibilities

Over the last fifty years or so, and especially in the last decade or so, calls for increases in SouthSouth economic cooperation and interaction have intensified with a view to promoting Southern development. This paper examines the main motives behind this call and the analytical approaches underlying them, discusses whether recent trends in South-South interaction have fulfilled the expectati...

[An overview of South-South Cooperation on Health].

This article presents a brief overview of the meaning of technical cooperation within the United Nations, underscoring the political dimension, i.e. the relationship among States. It also emphasizes the importance of health in this context, using the Americas and Brazil as a benchmark. It illustrates the new paradigm called South-South Cooperation by analyzing an experience in the health field,...