A Construção Saquarema Da América Do Sul: O Brasil, a Unasul E a Integração Regional

Abstract

This thesis deals with the constitution of the Union of South American Nations -UNASUL in the light of Brazilian social and political thought.UNASUR is an international organization composed of the twelve independent states of South America and which aims to establish broad regional integration according to its constitutional treaty. Brazil played a fundamental role in its creation due to its geopolitical weight in the regional space. The political logic underlying the process emulates characteristics that are homologous to a particular line of Brazilian social and political thought of an identity nature, which can be termed various terminologies: saquarema, organic idealist, iberista, developmentalist.