Despite its 50 year, only in the last decade was presented to public some papers and works app.roaching, directly or indirectly, aspects related to international cooperation in Inpa, one of the older governmental research institute of the region, established in 1954. These works are dissertations, thesis, articles, monographs, public opinion poll, evaluations, studies, reports of commissions created by Science and Technology Department and institutional programs. Usually, these works are sufficiently critical; recurring showed problems; and proposed solutions never implemented. This article is one part of the search for evidences about the hypothesis that the international cooperation policy in Amazonia suffered an inflection with the edition of 98.830/90 Decree and the by the regularization by Science and Technology Department (55/90 Decree), editedin the last day of the Sarney government (1985/1990).
Amazon; Amazon National Research Institute; international cooperation