Session 4: The BRICs: From Underdevelopment to Globalized Growth

I. Development and Democracy (graphic)

A. Deterministic Approaches (graphic)

B. National Development Pathways

1) Liberal Approaches (graphic)

2) Statist Approaches (graphic)

C. Brazil's Development Trajectory (Map)

1) Getúlio Vargas and the Estado Novo (Vargas) (Estado Novo)

2) Post-War Development (Grandeza) (Post-war Economic Policies)

3) The Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Period (Authoritarianism)

D. Brazilian Democracy

1) Transition to and Consolidation of Democracy (Democratic Transition) (Lyrics) (Apesar de Vocę)

2) Political Institutions of the New Republic (graphic) (graphic) (graphic) (graphic)

3) Economic Performance (graphic) (graphic)

II. Multi-Ethnic States and Post-Colonial Transitions

A. The Problems of Nation-Building

1) What is the "Nation?"

2) Where Do Nations Come From? (graphic)

3) The Problems of Nation-Building in Polyethnic Societies