International Cooperation for Development and Public Policies: a battlefiled for the authority of the international development concept

Abstract

The central argument of this text is anchored in the premise that International Cooperation for Development (CID) is a fundamental political field of international relations, where the authority battles the international development concept and its operationalization, we can be identified, directly reflected on the agenda. the public policies implemented in the countries receiving this offer. CID is consolidated on the international agenda, after the Second Great War, not within the institutional apparatus of the United Nations. It expresses an Official Aid for Development, seen as an instrument for the reduction of international inequalities and a means of socioeconomic modernization, as an incentive for peace and systemic stability. There is no reference to the Cold War, to international cooperation and understood, also, as a resource for the reduction of conflicts and before the expansion of the Soviet bloc. On the end of the Cold War, the Soviet overthrow and the diversification of the international agenda, provided by the interdependence between States and between societies, as well as the projections of two so-called emerging countries, reinforcing a dispute relationship between the international organizations protagonists from the field - UN and OECD - Since the end of two years 1990, redesigning the borders of international development, they have been the public policies that have been formulated and implemented from them.

Keywords

• cooperação para o desenvolvimento internacional
• campo político
• políticas públicas