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Accession Number:
ADA556022
Title:
Brazil for Sale? Does Sino-Brazilian Trade or Investment Significantly Influence Brazil's United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Voting Pattern?
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis
Corporate Author:
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA DEPT OF NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS
Report Date:
2011-12-01
Pagination or Media Count:
123.0
Abstract:
This thesis examines whether Sino-Brazilian trade or investment significantly influences Brazils voting in the United Nations General Assembly UNGA. To examine this relationship, the 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-Brazilian economic 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 Brazils democracy, regional stability, and U.S. national security. This thesis 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. The thesis presents five hypotheses, and tests them with two types of voting affinity measurements using both regression analysis and simple correlations. The thesis finds that Brazils exports to China have a statistically significant, positive relationship, and U.S. aid has a statistically significant, negative relationship, to Sino-Brazilian voting affinity.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
