Independent Foreign Policy: origin, development and collapse under the perspective of theory historical relationship between foreign and public opinion

Abstract

This article is intended to address, in a historical and theoretical perspective, the issue of the Independent Foreign Policy (PEI), which took place in Brazil, in the years 1961 - 1964 and represented a significant moment of interaction between national public opinion and directions of the foreign policy of the country. In recent years developed a strategy of international integration by which Brazil sought independence and relationship the antagonistic blocs of the cold war, sought to expand the range of international opportunities for trade and political relations, wished to project itself as a privileged interlocutor between the North and advocated the existence of a more equitable international system. At that time, public opinion is dramatically mobilized on the topics of the international insertion of Brazil. The relationship between foreign public and political opinion while I was force the PEI was an essential elements for structural change of political regime in the country.