The New International Economic Order. Lessons and Legacies 50 Years Later; Conference at the University of Venice, May 10-11, 2024

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A New International Economic Order again? A contrarian view from a practitioner from the Global South 

 

Paulo Roberto de Almeida; Abstract of a paper submission:

The New International Economic Order. Lessons and Legacies 50 Years Later; Conference at the University of Venice, May 10-11, 2024

email: nieoconference@unive.it 

 

Abstract

Brazil was a leading country, with some other nations in the developing world, in the debate, from the 1970s to the 80s, about a NIEO, at least since the reform of the Gatt, in 1964, and the inauguration of UNCTAD conferences. Its diplomatic staff was actively engaged, with other important Third World countries representatives, in the presentation of proposals aiming to a NIEO, specially in drafting economic agreements for its commodity exports (mainly coffee, cocoa, sugar and some others), as well as a strong supporter of the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries at all multilateral economic organizations. 

The purpose of my paper, as a diplomat engaged in the practice and teaching about international economic relations since the late 70s, is to present a contrarian view about the efforts of those countries to reform economic institutions, treaties and practices at that level and context, then and even now, after a third wave of globalization in the 90s and early 2000s, and a “fragmented deglobalization” since the economic ascent of China and a partial retraction of developed countries into neo-protectionism and new fashions in industrial and other sectorial policies. The aim is to challenge the very concept of a NIEO, as an ideal proposal constructed by diplomats and policy makers, to offer an assessment of the differing paths assumed by some (not all) developing countries, during the high times of neoliberal thinking and thereafter, on the basis of actual results, and to collect some learnings from that era and nowadays. 

  

Short Bio: 

Paulo Roberto de Almeida is Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Free University of Brussels, 1984), Master in Economic Planning (College for Developing Countries, State University of Antwerp, 1977), and a Brazilian career diplomat since 1977. From August 2016 to March 2019 served as Director of the International Relations Research Institute, at the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations. From 2004 to 2021 was professor of International Political Economy at the Master and Doctoral Law programs at the University Center of Brasília (Uniceub); was also former professor at the Brazilian Diplomatic Academy (Instituto Rio Branco), at graduate studies in Sociology at the University of Brasília, and invited professor at the Institut de Hautes Études de l’Amérique Latine (Sorbonne) in 2012. Currently is Director for International Relations at Historical and Geographic Institute of Brasilia. Among his many books is Formação da Diplomacia Econômica no Brasil: as relações econômicas internacionais no Império (2001, 2005, 2017) [The Building-up of economic diplomacy in Brazil: the international economic relations during the Monarchy], besides many other works and articles on diplomatic history, regional integration and international trade.

 

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Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Director for International Relations at Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Brasília

Website: https://paulorobertodealmeida.academia.edu/

Blog: https://diplomatizzando.blogspot.com

Complete CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9470963765065128

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paulo_Almeida2

 

[Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Brasília, 4346: 1 abril 2023, 2 p.]