International Relations and Development

Abstract

Aurora Journal publishes its seventh edition presenting readers with the Dossier on International Relations and Development. Opening this section we have the article by Ana Cristina Barreto dealing with the topic of pharmaceutical patents and their role in development; Next we bring the work of Francisco Corsi, who analyzes the recent structural crisis of capitalism and the possible transformations of the current accumulation pattern. Authors Frederico de Sá Costa and Rodrigo Wunder contribute, in this edition, with an analysis of the concepts of "terrorism" and "counterterrorism" applied to the ideological rhetoric that supports the fight against the "War on Terror" undertaken by the United States. Saulo de Castro Lima presents us with a study on Brazilian development in the 1960s and 1970s, where he considers the constant inflections and corrections of the economic policies adopted in the period. Below we have the article authored by Edson Neves Júnior, where he discusses the changes seen in the foreign policy of the government of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva on the topic of climate change. André Luís Scantimburgo addresses the concept and implications of sustainable development that is propagated by multilateral agencies, and in particular by the World Bank, as a solution to the most recent environmental problems, associating it with a front of capital accumulation linked to the commodification of resources natural. To this end, it uses an analysis of policies aimed at Brazilian water resources in the 1990s. João Paulo Schittini reflects on the foreign policy of the Lula government to promote human rights, as an instrument for promoting development and questioning the current international order . Felipe Calabrez da Silva makes a critical analysis of the proposed reform of the Brazilian State apparatus that emerged at the end of the 1980s, and its relationship with the liberal macroeconomic policy that was subsequently adopted. Closing this section, Sandra Siqueira da Silva makes a bibliographical survey on the topic "development" with the aim of considering the patrimonialization of culture as a contribution to development. We also have the Miscellaneous Section, where we had contributions from: Maria Aparecida Couto, with the articleMasculinities and Femininities: the construction of oneself in the school context; by Marcos Tarcísio Florindo with the work DEOPS/SP in the Vargas Era: Institutional growth, bureaucratic administration and traditional practices of police action; by Normando de Albuquerque Melo and his article Josué de Castro before the famine; by authors Abraão Pustrelo Damião and Sueli Andruccioli Félix, with the article Thinking the City: its contradictions and the construction of sociability under the dilemma of insecurity; and, ending this section, Gabriel Salum and José Geraldo Poker bring us the articleThe Extension of Economic-Privatistic Rationality to Knowledge Produced by Emancipated Subjectivity: paradox of modernity. Finally, in the Special Section, we have two texts by Osvaldo Coggiola on the recent political and social demonstrations taking place in the Arab region, the first text being on popular demonstrations in Egypt and the second text on Tunisia.