| Brazil for Sale Contributor(s): Naval Postgraduate School (Author) |
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ISBN: 149973591X ISBN-13: 9781499735918 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - Trade & Tariffs |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 8.5" W x 11" (0.58 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines whether Sino-Brazilian trade or investment significantly influences Brazil's voting in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). To examine this relationship, this thesis regresses a dataset of UNGA votes, which the literature commonly uses to represent political influence, with trade and investment data. Understanding whether the growing Sino-Brazilianeconomic relationship politically impacts Brazil is important both to Brazil and to the United States. Any increase in Chinese influence on Brazil may translate into a corresponding decrease in U.S. influence, which may have implications for the health of Brazil's democracy, regional stability and U.S. national security.This book crafts, for the first time in the literature on Sino-Brazilian relations, an estimable empirical model that examines whether trade or investment influences UNGA voting behavior between these two nations; this is an improved methodology for evaluating this relationship as previous studies relied on simple correlations. This book makes five hypotheses, and tests them with two types of voting affinity measurements using both regression analysis and simple correlations. This book finds that Brazil's exports to China have a statistically significant, positive relationship, and U.S. aid has a statistically significant, negative relationship, to Sino-Brazilian voting affinity. |