Relations of South Africa and Brazil with Mozambique: limits of South-South relations under globalization

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https://doi.org/10.12957/rmi.2023.72366

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Globalization, South-South Relations, Mozambique

Abstract

This article examines South Africa's economic relations with Mozambique in the post-apartheid context (1994 onwards), and the penetration of Brazilian businesses in Mozambique during the Lula governments (2003-2010). My hypothesis is that globalization has modified South Africa's historical links with the Mozambican economic space without subverting its asymmetrical structures, while the analysis of the Brazilian case makes explicit the importance of political action as a tool for bringing countries closer together. Beyond the specificity of the cases, this analysis sheds light on the scope and limits of South-South interactions advanced by governments originally identified with social change (ANC, Frelimo and PT), but subject to the constraints imposed by the articulation between globalization and neoliberalism.

Received on Jan 8th. 2023 | Accepted on 17 Oct. 2023.

Author Biography

Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Doutor em História Econômica pela Universidade de São Paulo. Pós-Doutoraado no centro Genre, Travail, Mobilités, Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris (GTM-CRESPPA). Professor da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, atuando no curso de Relações Internacionais no campus Osasco. Research Associate, Society Work and Politics Institute (SWOP), University of the Witwatersrand, África do Sul. Research Associate, Centre for Canadian, US & Latin American Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Índia. Tem experiência na área de História e Relações Internacionais com ênfase em História da América Latina e História do mundo não-europeu, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: História Contemporânea; História da América Latina; História do mundo não europeu; Relações Internacionais na América Latina e no Sul Global; Pensamento Brasileiro e Latino-Americano.

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Barbosa dos Santos, F. L. (2023). Relations of South Africa and Brazil with Mozambique: limits of South-South relations under globalization . Mural Internacional, 14, e72366. https://doi.org/10.12957/rmi.2023.72366 (Original work published October 20, 2023)

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