ISSN 2238-6262 / e-ISSN 2238-6912 Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations Revista Brasileira de Estratégia e Relações Internacionais Porto Alegre, v.5, n.9 | Jan./Jun. 2016 Austral Porto Alegre v.5, n.9 p. 1-318 Jan./Jun. 2016 About the Journal AUSTRAL: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations is an essentially academic vehicle, linked to the Brazilian Centre for Strategy and International Relations (NERINT) and to the International Strategic Studies Doctoral Program (PPGEEI) of the Faculty of Economics (FCE) of the Uni- versidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Its pluralist focus aims to contribute to the debate on the international political and economic order from the perspective of the developing countries. The journal publishes original articles in English, Portuguese or Spanish about themes that lie in the vast area of Strategy and International Relations, with special interest in issues related to developing countries and the South-South relations, their security issues, the economic, political and diplomatic development of emerging nations and their relations with the tra- ditional powers. The journal’s target audience consists of researchers, special- ists and postgraduate students of International Relations. The journal will try, through its publication policy, to ensure that each volume has at least one author from each of the great southern continents (Asia, Latin America, Africa), in order to stimulate the debate and the diffu- sion of the knowledge produced in these regions. All of the contributions will be subjected to a scientific review. 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Martynov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brazil) Cristina Pecequilo (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil) Diego Pautasso (ESPM-Sul / Unisinos, Brazil) Henry Kam Kah (University of Buea, Cameroon) Ilter Turan (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) José Ariosa Pérez (Universidad de la Habana, Cuba) José Miguel Quedi Martins (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Liu Youfa (China Institute of International Studies, China) Lotfi Kaabi (Institut Tunisien des Études Stratégiques, Tunisia) Lucas Kerr de Oliveira (Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, Brazil) Luiz Rogério Goldoni (Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército, Brazil) Mamoudou Gazibo (Université de Montréal, Canada) Marcos Costa Lima (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Maria Regina Soares de Lima (IESP, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Mehdi Parvizi Amineh (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Monica Hirst (Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina) Nikolai Mikhailov (Russkiy Mir Foundation, Russia) Sean W. Burges (Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies, Australia) 3 ©Núcleo Brasileiro de Estratégia e Relações Internacionais - UFRGS Cover and Layout: Tiago Oliveira Baldasso AUSTRAL: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations is available online in English and Portuguese at www.seer.ufrgs.br/austral Contact Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas Av. João Pessoa, 52, sala 18E - CEP 90040-000 - Centro Porto Alegre/RS - Brazil Phone: +55 51 3308.3963 | Fax: +55 51 3308.3963 E-mail: [email protected] www.seer.ufrgs.br/Austral Cataloging-in-Publication (CIP) Austral : Revista Brasileira de Estratégia e Relações Internacionais = Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations / Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas. - v. 5, n. 9 (Jan./Jun. 2016). – Porto Alegre: NERINT/PPGEEI/FCE/UFRGS, 2012- Semestral. ISSN 2238-6262. e-ISSN 2238-6912 1. Political Science. 2. 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CDU 327 Biblioteca Gládis Wiebbelling do Amaral, Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas da UFRGS. 4 Volume 5, Number 9 (Jan./Jun. 2016) Contents Editor’s Note 7 Paulo Fagundes Visentini Presentation: Special dossier about relations between Brazil and 9 Angola Fabio Costa Morosini, Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin Latin America’s Slow Pace in the 21st Century 11 Amado Cervo The Culture of Political Instability and the Rapprochment of South 32 America and United States Henrique Carlos de Oliveira de Castro, Sonia Ranincheski Brazil and the regional leadership vacuum: the chinese-american 53 advance (2011/2016) Corival Alves do Carmo, Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo Oligarchical restoration and full neoliberalism reloaded: an essay on 74 the roots of the twin crises and the 2016 coup d’Etat in Brazil Marcelo Milan Political Economy of trade with the European Union: South Africa’s 113 pursuit of narrow self-interest Oscar van Heerden Kwame Nkrumah and the pan-african vision: between acceptance 141 and rebuttal Henry Kam Kah Resurgence of militancy in Ogoniland: socio-economic perspective 165 Oluwaseun Bamidele Relations of Brazil with South Africa and Angola: efforts for the 189 maintenance of security in South Atlantic Luiz Rogério Franco Goldoni, Sandro de Nazareth Ciribelli 5 Investment regulation between Brazil and Angola: internal factors, 208 international context and the design of the Agreement for Cooperation and Facilitation of Investments (ACFI) Michelle Ratton Sanchez Badin, Fabio Costa Morosini, Ely Caetano Xavier Junior Brazilian Foreign Policy and Investments in Angola 235 Pietro Carlos de Souza Rodrigues, Sonia Delindro Gonçalves Transnationalism and Paradiplomacy in the economic relations 260 between Brazil and Angola: the construction of the Capanda Hydropower Plant by the Construtora Odebrecht André Rodrigues Corrêa, Douglas de Castro Impacts of cooperation? Comparing the national development banks 286 of Brazil and Angola Patricia Alencar Silva Mello, Sarah Morganna Matos Marinho Partners 310 Submission Standards / Previous Issues 313 The responsibility for the content of the articles is of their respective authors. A responsabilidade do conteúdo dos artigos é de seus respectivos autores. Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations e-ISSN 2238-6912 | ISSN 2238-6262| v.5, n.9, Jan./Jun. 2016 6 Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations e-ISSN 2238-6912 | ISSN 2238-6262| v.5, n.9, Jan./Jun. 2016 | p.7-8 EDITOR’S NOTE Paulo Visentini1 After earning important international projection since the beginning of the 21st century, a good amount of Brazil´s prestige degraded as a result of the political dispute that has been dragging since the reelection of President Dilma. The complex involvement in the process of institutions such as the legislative, the judiciary and the Federal Police in “Lava Jato Operation”, which aims to fight corruption, reached multiple political sectors and reverberated in companies and in the declaim of GDP, creating an uncertain future. The Brazilian’s president removal, motivated by internal and external factors, is closely linked with end of the cycle of progressive regimens in Lat- in America. She changed President´s Lula project, adopting conflicting pol- icies that fragmented the presidential coalition and neither understood nor answered properly to the protests of 2013 and 2014. Furthermore, she sought her reelection, without a consensual left support, and was able to win by a narrow margin, which worsened Brazilian’s society polarization. A hetero- genic alliance, composed by both opposition and the own base of government support, now competes for the indication to the 2018’s elections. External factors as the impact of economic-financial crisis also con-