Tensions between the Alliance for Progress project and national development in Brazil

Abstract

This paper analyzes the reception of the Alliance for Progress program in Brazil. The central hypothesis researches the influence of the previous national-developmentalism trajectory, the robust experiences with social-economic planning in a state shape, the leaning towards valorizing the protagonist action of the state and the existence of an independent external policy project (PEI), in the strategic (and late) creation of the Alliance for Progress by the United States, as well its weak presence and existence in Brazil.