Ceará paradiplomacy

Fiscal Reform, Economic Modernization and Paradiplomacy in Ceará State, 1987-
2006: An Experience of Internationalization outside the Richer Southern And
Southeastern Regions of Brazil
José Nelson Bessa Maia (*)
Abstract
This article aims to examine the experience of paradiplomacy in Ceará, one of the Brazilian states remarkable for an endogenous modernizing reform that led to economic dynamism, driven by an active strategy of internationalization of its economy and external projection. The article does a brief review of the concept of paradiplomacy in the International Relations area and then presents the experience of Ceará state with paradiplomacy, with its practical outcomes in an uninterrupted period of 20 years.
Finally, it concludes with the warning on the importance of the politics for continuity or reversal of paradiplomacy.
Key words: Paradiplomacy; internationalization, modernization, fiscal responsibility and subnational
entity.

* José Nelson Bessa Maia is bachelor in Economics, master in Economics by University of Brasília (UnB) and a candidate for a doctor´s degree in International Relations at UnB.


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