Apresentação do dossiê: a cooperação internacional para o desenvolvimento - debates e práticas

Abstract

This dossier deals with a fundamental field in contemporary international life, International Cooperation for Development (ICD), addressing its debates and practices. In historical terms, this field began to take shape after the Second World War, in a context in which economic stability in peripheral regions was mixed with security and geopolitical concerns. The decolonization process, intensified in this period, generated new state actors, multiplying the representation and demands related to the so-called Third World. At the same time that these countries were part of the international system, they challenged the bipolar structure and questioned the condition of underdevelopment. This was the period of creation of the Non-Aligned Movement at UNCTAD, the G-77 at the UN General Assembly, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), strongly based on in ECLAC theories of dependence. With this, the apparatus for fostering international cooperation gains strength, constituting a field of action aimed at new demands and needs related to development.