Brazilian foreign policy, south-south cooperation and higher educationABSTRACT:
Higher Education refers to one of the main sectors of the International Cooperation for Development in the field of the Brazilian Foreign Policy (PEB). An important initiative of this sector, aimed at the education of students from developing countries in Brazilian universities, is the Program Student-Management Agreement (PEC-G), regulated in 1965. This article characterizes the PEC-G from the viewpoint of the Brazilian South-South Cooperation (CSS). Thus, a dialogue between the particularities of its regulation, its current characteristics, the BFP and the SSC is established. The law underlying PEC-G was proven a control policy focused on national security. Despite its rise from a cooperative sense, its conditions stands apart from the official speech used for SSC.
Keywords: Brazilian foreign policy; South-south cooperation; Higher education