Development of Brazilian Economic Diplomacy and its Implications for Iran

پژوهش نامه ایرانی سیاست بین الملل

Volume 13, Issue 1 - Serial Number 25, January 2025, Pages 23-1   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/irlip.2024.87216.1511

Authors

rohollah eslami^{* 1}; Hameed Jabery²

¹ferdowsi

²Master's degree in International Relations, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Being among the world's biggest debtors in the 1980s, Brazil made progress and developed at an unparalleled pace since the mid-1990s with economic reforms. This article aims to examine the Brazilian trade policy process and its relation with Iran. By applying the theory of complex interdependence, it was found that while abandoning the tradition of protectionism and the tendency to integrate into the global geo-economy, it diversified its partners in the form of trade agreements, reduced reliance on Mercosur, strengthened The entry of foreign capital and the presence of Brazilian investors oversees, trade multilateralism, the reduction of tariff rates and non-tariff barriers; On the other hand, the necessity of concluding preferential and especially free trade agreements between Iran and Brazil, creating export capacity due to the complementarity of the economies of the two countries, as well as overcoming challenges such as tariff rates and cooperation in the direction of multilateralism in the form of institutions such as BRICS, are opportunities that could shape Iranian trade policy towards Brazil.

Keywords

: Economic diplomacy; Foreign investment; Mercosur; Trade agreement; Trade multilateralism

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