INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS IN THE STATE OF BAHIA: THE WORK OF THE WORLD BANK ON THE TRANSITION OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER
paradiplomacy; World Bank; Bahia; development; neocorporatism.
The institutionalization of international negotiations in the state of Bahia took place during the decades of 1970-1980 under the neo-corporate perspective of class struggles, from the action of a tripod of actors: Bahia, Brazil and the World Bank. The process stems from the interpenetration of internal and external factors in the state apparatus under the aegis of the new neoliberal international order that created new institutions in developing countries through international organizations, particularly the World Bank. The early agency of external relations in Bahia is born in the background of the conservative modernization in the rural sector. This was internally marked by the II National Development Plan (II NDP) and by the dominant class interests linked to external capital, and externally through the discourse on poverty eradication in the World Bank’s integrated rural development projects. The institutional reforms of strengthening the public machine via economic planning gestated in the country from the Vargas government, and in Bahia under the leadership of Romulus Almeida, provided the rational technocratic profile requested from the Bank as part of the subjective (ideological) insertion strategy via technical and organizational assistance. The Federative decentralization expansion, marked in the Federal Constitution of 1988, composes the last element of the agency process of Bahia for external relations, which occurred in a Federative and horizontal perspective (functional) no matter how autonomous.