Along the last decades, the study of the International Relations has diversified its analysis,
leaving behind an approach focused on the National States, and starting to analyze mindfully
the dynamic and rise of the new global actors on international scenery. These new global
actors are taken as sub national entities, including the cities and the local governments,
begetting, thus, a new analysis focus, mainly, on the international cooperation context. This
Master’s thesis analyzes why and how the insertion and the international acting of both
Amazonian cities, Belem and Manaus, occur; considering as scenery, a globalized and
interdependent world. In this new scenery’s set, which is propitious to the international
relations, the international cooperation becomes a latent instrument to not only countries’
development, but also to cities’ development, through the Decentralized Cooperation: politiceconomic
phenomenon relatively recent and that increasingly has entered on the local
developments’ agendas. The cities embrace, more and more, the international relations and
the decentralized cooperation strategies as a driving and parallel development agenda,
whether on the external resources capitation, on the local identity strengthening or even, on
both foreign trade promotion and cultural dissemination. Belem and Manaus, lócus of this
research, have presented along the years several motivations and ways of make their
international relations effective, and, in order to analyze them, a fundamentally qualitative
analysis was adopted, tracing an analytical-descriptive framework between the investigated
cities. This work analyzes the actions, strategies, mechanisms and institutionalized and noninstitutionalized
ways of international activities management in those cities. The current
global scenery is encourager of multilevel interactions between ‘old’ and ‘new’ international
actors, however the international relations habitus stimulates, more and more, the continuity
and the commitment which the governments (national or local) must have to correspond and
follow the dynamics that are imposed by globalization, although, not all the governments
follow, possess or dedicate appropriated structures to the yearnings which are demanded by
the new and interdependent international scenery.
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