Internacionalização de cidades e seus determinantes locais: um mapeamento da paradiplomacia municipal brasileira

Abstract

At the end of the 1980s, in response to the democratic shift in Brazilian federalism, decentralized internationalization became a new possibility in the daily administrative practices of subnational units. However, factors such as the legal gap or the lack of a specific direction for conducting these activities resulted in deeply diffuse and heterogeneous practices. The present paper seeks to contribute to the analysis of international practices of Brazilian federative entities and results from a scientific initiation research entitled "Brazilian paradiplomacy in a comparative perspective", in which data on the performance, organization, and functioning of paradiplomacy in Brazilian cities was collected. The following question was investigated: how is the paradiplomatic environment of Brazilian municipalities characterized and, consequently, what are its local determinants? Adopting the time frame based on the last full municipal mandates (2017-2020), an exploratory survey of information on municipal paradiplomacy was conducted. Beyond representing a relevant survey on the most recent international action of cities, the results of this work consolidate information on the segment of Brazilian paradiplomacy, providing contributions to other analyses within this research field.