Brazilian anticorruption law and institutions were significantly transformed in recent decades. This article traces those transformations and explains how the international anticorruption and money laundering regimes ...

The case focuses on the negotiations between the governments of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on possible impacts of the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Ethiopian territory. The Sudanese and ...

We analyze the direct and simultaneous effects of internationalization on the ownership structure of Latin American companies based on agency theory. Using a sample of 425 Latin American firms between 2007 and 2011, which ...

Importing institutional solutions is a theoretical alternative to cases non-identified with the transplants approach. Studying the context of the creation of the Brazilian development banks and the Angolan bank, the BDA, ...

The metaphor of cultural distance has dominated the cross-cultural studies area for over four decades through a vision focused, mainly, on economic interest and cultural differences between countries. The use of this ...

This article aims to understand the basic characteristics of regionalism in Brazilian foreign policy. For this purpose, it goes over the recent history of Brazilian involvement in regional trade and security arrangements ...

This article explores the normative and institutional implications of the long-term use of individual sanctions by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). It identifies the systematic and extensive use of individual ...