U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil
The book analyzes the elite-led efforts to transform the Brazilian legal order in the period between 19301975 and how U.S. Power played a major role in such a process. Besides the global circulation of ideas, the book discusses the Brazilian institutional development in the period.
A profound Crisis of Civilization marked the first decades of the century: the references of space and time vanished with the vertiginous expansion of cities and industries, while a myriad of immigrants and former slaves were alleged to be threatening the countrys traditions. Brazilian elites blamed liberalism for such a Crisis. Based on a decade of research, this book centralizes Brazilian history in liberalism and offers a genealogy of the jurisprudential and institutional struggles to correct the culture of laissez-faire. Using archival sources, it shows the direct U.S. influence on Brazilian thought and development. Recasting the history of legal ideas in the 20th century and providing novel interpretations on major political processes, it offers a rigorous and fresh look at the development of liberalism in the country.
Covering five decades of history and offering a transnational approach involving the U.S. hegemonic role in Brazil, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of law, U.S. foreign policy, area studies, and international relations.
Jlio Cattai is an historian of political ideas with interests in liberalism, law, Latin America, and Contemporary History. He also has an interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He is a member of the Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) and the Centre for Contemporary Culture Studies (Research Institute, Brazil). He is the author of Guerra Fria e Propaganda: a U.S. Information Agency no Brasil (2019) and is currently researching the birth of neoliberalism in Brazil.
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Names: Cattai, Jlio, author.
Title: U.S. power and the social state in Brazil: legal modernization in theglobal South / Jlio Cattai.
Other titles: United States power and the social state in Brazil
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. |Series: Routledge studies in US foreign policy |Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021032971 (print) | LCCN 2021032972 (ebook) |ISBN 9780367643164 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367643188 (paperback) |ISBN 9781003123941 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: LawBrazilHistory20th century. |Constitutional historyBrazil20th century. |LiberalismBrazilHistory20th century. |BrazilPolitics and government20th century. |LawBrazilAmerican influencesHistory20th century.
Classification: LCC KHD292 .C38 2022 (print) |LCC KHD292 (ebook) | DDC 342.8102/9dc23
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003123941
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For Alice
In memory of my grandparents
Contents
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Acknowledgments
This book was only possible because of some people and institutions that I would hereby like to thank.
First of all, I would like to thank Prof. Inderjeet Parmar, who invited me to write a book proposal for evaluation. In addition to his brilliant acumen as a researcher and analyst of the international order, Parmar has a rare professional generosity. I wish also to thank Robert Sorsby and Claire Maloney at Routledge for their support. I am finally very grateful to Marco Alexandre de Oliveira for editing the manuscript, and to Felipe Colla de Amorim, who generously reviewed it.
At the University of So Paulo, I had fundamental institutional support to carry out this project. I am particularly grateful to my Ph.D. advisor, Professor Elizabeth Cancelli, a provocative intellectual who has always encouraged me on the paths of historical research. My colleagues in the Cold War Studies Group are an integral part of this book. They have generously discussed ideas and read draft chapters. Thank you all so much. I owe a special thanks to Aru Lima, Diego Penholato, Felipe Colla de Amorim, Natlia Mello, Thiago Amado, and Wanderson Chaves. They heard about my intentions and were always supportive. With them, I have also had the pleasure of sharing friendships, which makes it possible to bear the horrible times in Brazil.
