De la coopération intellectuelle à la diplomatie culturelle : le parcours du Brésil dans l’entre-deux-guerres

• Main Author: Juliette Dumont
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2012-12-01
• Series: Caravelle
• Subjects: Brazil; Cultural diplomacy; Intellectual cooperation; Pan-Americanism; International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/442

From the 1930s (the Thirties) Brazil has been building the tools of a cultural diplomacy, trying to show the world a positive image of the country. This process takes roots in intellectual cooperation practices which develop in Latin America at the end of the 19th century, and thanks to protagonists and networks that emerge in the days following the First World War, in an international surrounding, through the National Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, depending on the SdN, and Pan-American. Therefore, it’s on a score which is played as much in Europe as in America, in a development process which mixes the national, transnational and international scales that some Brazilian actors construct their country’s international identity.