Abstract

CARVALHO, Soraia Milene. The economic diplomacy project of Bettencourt Rodrigues in the context of World War I. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2019, n.61, pp.33-45. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2019.61a04.

This article discusses the conception of Bettencourt Rodrigues, an enthusiastic of “A Portuguese-Brazilian Confederation”; the idea of a Latin Commonwealth for the post-World War I. The Union of the nations of Mediterranean Europe with “The Sisters of the New Continent” was believed to be conducive, in 1923, to the creation of a free market and a common generator of competition, but not among themselves; reactivating the importance of colonialism and colonies that become points of caution for the affirmation of countries such as Portugal. Lisbon would be the European metropolis for the arrival of goods from Brazil and Angola, in a “South Atlantic Triangle”, outlining an economically-spoken cooperation in post-war, through international geopolitics in a context of “crisis”. If the European interests were put to the clear into the League of Nations, they would have intensified, among the Portuguese, the search for an oxygen balloon, looking at the Atlantic space as the national redeemer. This presents a thesis about an economic diplomacy of an Atlantist nature, objecting to the global tendency for commercial and maritime expansion, in the contingency of an empire that collapsed, increasing the need to develop the Portuguese relations, in hope to reposition Portugal in the «balance» of world conveniences.

Keywords : Latin America; Brazil; Portugal; South Atlantic.

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