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The reference work Brazil - United States: the emerging rivalry (1950-1988) has been revised and expanded by Professor Luiz Alberto Moniz Bandeira.
The study reveals that the "traditional friendship" between the two countries has always been an ideological stereotype manipulated to influence Brazil's foreign policy. Based on extensive documentation, Moniz Bandeira shows how the relationship between the two American powers was not always smooth and peaceful. In the 19th century, Brazil suspended diplomatic relations with the United States three times (1827, 1847, and 1869) and did not passively accept its hegemony, even though, until the first half of the 20th century, it depended on exports to the North American giant. The demands of industrialization, driven by President Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945 and 1951-1954), exacerbated contradictions with the United States, which contributed decisively to the 1964 military coup. The "brief and aberrant interlude," as American Ambassador John Crimmins called the government of Marshal Humberto Castelo Branco, was characterized by its "automatic alignment" with the United States, and Brazil's economic interests led to the reemergence of contradictions. Friction reached its peak with the signing of the Brazil-Germany Nuclear Agreement (1976) and the rupture of the Military Agreement with the United States by the government of General Ernesto Geisel in 1977.
Brazil - United States: The Emerging Rivalry (1950-1988) is not a stand-alone work. It is part of a series that begins with The US Presence in Brazil (Two Centuries of Stories) and includes Dangerous Relations: Brazil - United States (From Collor to Lula) ; Brazil, Argentina, and the United States - Conflict and Integration in South America (From the Triple Alliance to Mercosur) ; and The Formation of the American Empire (From the War against Spain to the War in Iraq) , among others.
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