Os think tanks e a importação do ideário ultraliberal: estudo de caso sobre a Atlas Network e institutos parceiros no Brasil

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze the connection between private american and brazilian institutions that promote public policy researches, instigate political debates and influence the political praxis: think tanks. The emergence of those institutions after the Second World War in the United States of America has marked the expansion of a liberal agenda and anti-socialist discourse throughout the Cold War. A notorious example of this type of organization is the Atlas Network, partner of more than 500 think tanks in over more than 100 countries, which also has connections with liberal Brazilian institutions. Atlas Network’s creator, Anthony Fisher, was profoundly inspired by the work of Friedrich Hayek and actively worked to promote liberal ideas and free-market solutions. Considering the expansion of right-wing political discourse and neoliberal movements in Brazil’s recent years, this monograph intends to clarify if there is an external impulse to the reproduction of liberal ideology, through the financial and logistical support provided to those institutions located in Brazil. A case study of Atlas Network and its Brazilian partners will be developed, applying a marxist perspective of international relations to analyze the new-right phenomenon, Atlas Network’s history and its connection to Brazilian think tanks, as well as their impact in the political scenario. Moreover, an analyses of the institutions’ social media statistics and relevant influencers connected to these social movements will be implemented, to demonstrate the range of their impact on new media formats and the application of these social media to promote the liberal think tanks’ ideology.