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This final thesis will be devoted to the position of China in the world economy, and in particular its potential to become the largest economy in the world. High Chinese economic growth of the past ten years, and China's actions have shown its potential to become a world leader. China's competition is current but economically debilitating leader USA. The financial crisis and high debt caused the U.S. economic slowdown and possible potential loss of world leadership. The objective of thesis is to assess, on the basis of the analysis of the current state of the Chinese economy and its growth potential and threats, whether China is to become the world leader in the near future, and takes over that primacy by the longtime leader USA. In order to meet the above mentioned objectives, the thesis also will focus on the current situation of the U. S. economy.

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This project adopts the framework of World Systems Analysis [WSA], formulated by global sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, to take the entire world system as the unit of analysis. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, the seminal theorist of critical pedagogy, this project couples WSA with the analytic lens of public pedagogy to overcome the conceptual limitations of ideology and of various postmodern critiques. Primary media sources are used for purposes of critical political economy, to outline the contours of economic changes and class formations from the first world revolution. A detailed descriptive history of the revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 recovers narratives from that critical juncture. I discuss prominent public pedagogies via analysis of primary print media sources like the London Times. Focusing on hegemonic shifts in the world system around 1848, I throw light on movement-media cracks in the British Empire, while also uncovering oft-ignored resistance, insurrections and utopian experiments in the Americas. Pedagogies of conspiracy theory and Manifest Destiny legitimated US aggression against Mexico as the former took initial steps toward becoming a world system superpower. Problems and pedagogies from 1848 are also updated and examined in light of the contemporary society-media context to consider cracks in the existing system and learn from the past new possible paths out of the world system’s terminal structural crisis.

During the past two decades, neoliberal economic policies have been enacted in many peripheral regions of the world. Neoliberalism promotes free trade, deregulation, privatization, and welfare reduction; however, it does not call for state rescission of social control and legal coercion. Global capitalism has asserted itself as the dominant force in modernity. It transcends the nation-state system. For example, the United States was the primary hegemon throughout much of the 20th century. Yet since the appearance of global capitalism, transnational corporations now dominate the world-economy. Wealth is heavily concentrated in the hands of an elite capitalist class. The resultant income inequality, coupled with increased state surveillance and formal control, increases structural violence throughout the periphery. The purpose of this article is to examine the structural inequalities in the Americas, while presenting possible solutions to the neoliberal crisis from a social justice perspective.

This thesis deals with the position of the selected countries of East Africa in the world economy and prospects of their future development. The first chapter provides basic information about Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. The second chapter belongs to the most important ones and deals with the historical context. The third part adds some information about the UN approach to the events in this territory. The fourth chapter is devoted to foreign policy orientation. The next two chapters are the most significant ones: the fifth part deals with development of economy and current economic situation, the sixth part discusses foreign trade. The last chapter provides an outlook for the future of these African countries.

Esta tese é um estudo de epistemologia da história nos domínios da história econômica. Por ser um estudo de epistemologia histórica também é metodológico e historiográfico. Adotamos como objeto principal de investigação obra e pensamento do historiador francês Fernand Braudel (1902-1985). Nossa hipótese geral é a de que a disciplina de história econômica obteve com Fernand Braudel um novo significado no conjunto das ciências sociais e humanas. Já a nossa hipótese específica parte da noção de que economia mundo não se trata de um conceito comum na obra do autor, como tende a se sustentar na historiografia, mas sim de um mecanismo epistêmico dentro do conjunto braudeliano capaz não apenas de dar sentido à sua teoria histórica do capitalismo, mas fundamental para se compreender a partir da escrita estrutural associada à longa duração - a sua perspectiva de espaço-tempo nos domínios da história. Para comprovação das hipóteses apresentadas, três discussões nortearão esta pesquisa: i) a relação das disciplinas de história, economia e sua resultante, a história econômica; ii) o duelo entre a história estrutural braudeliana e o estruturalismo; e iii) os contextos da obra e pensamento braudelianos. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que a história econômica não somente foi o maior campo de estudos do historiador francês, mas foi a base de seu projeto epistemológico para o conjunto das ciências sociais e humanas. Verificou-se também que o projeto braudeliano em boa parcela foi construído a partir da antinomia de método com o estruturalismo; uma incursão problematizadora dos princípios epistemológicos do método estruturalista demonstraram que seus formalismos impediram que seu maior expoente, Claude Lévi- Strauss, resolvesse a aporia do tempo. Essa incursão nos levou a estudar a concepção de espaço e de tempo na filosofia e na ciência. Verificou-se o debate entre ciência e filosofia em torno do novo problema espaço-tempo lançado pelo físico Albert Einstein enquanto contexto histórico do período de constituição dos paradigmas dos primeiros Annales e braudelianos. O projeto braudeliano, denominado de história global, de nada tem a ver com a pueril pretensão de estudar todos os fatos históricos humanos em todas as épocas possíveis, mas apenas de se inverter a ordem tradicional de investigação das ciências sociais e humanas que se autonomizaram na virada de século e no decorrer do século XX. Trata-se de não mais se restringir à dicotomia idiográfica hipotético-indutiva (empirista) versus nomotética hipotético-dedutiva (racionalista), trata-se de superá-la. / This thesis is a study of history epistemology within the domains of economic history. As it is a study of history epistemology, it is also methodological and historiographical. We have adopted the french historian Fernand Braudel\'s (1902-1985) work and thought as our investigation object. The general hypothesis is that the economic history discipline has had, with Fernand Braudel, a new meaning in the social and human sciences conjunct. In the other hand, our specific hypothesis is that world-economy is not about a commom concept in the author\'s theory, as it is maintained in historiography, but it\'s about an epistemical mechanism within the braudelian conjunct able to make sense not only to the author\'s historic theory of the capitalism, but fundamental to understand from the structural writing associated to long duration - , as well, his perspective of space-time in history domains. Three discussions will lead this research for validation of the hypothesis: i) the disciplines\' relations of history, economy and their resultant, economic history; ii) the battle between braudelian structural history and structuralism; and iii) the braudelian work and thought contexts. The obtained results have shown that economic history was not only the greater study field of the french historian, but also the bedrock for his epistemological project for the social science conjunct. It was also verified that the braudelian project was elaborated from the methodological antinomy with the structuralism; a problematical incursion of the epistemological principles from the structural method have shown that its formalisms prevented its greater exponent, Claude Lévi-Strauss, to solve the time aporia. This incursion lead us to study the concept of space and time in philosophy and in science. We have noticed that the debate between science and philosophy about the new problem space-time brought up by the physicist Albert Einstein, is related to paradigms from the earliest Annales, and the braudelians. The braudelian project denominated global history, has nothing to do with the puerile pretension of studying all the human historical facts of all possible times, but only to invert the traditional investigation order of social sciences which became independant by the century\'s upturn and throughout the XX th century. This is no longer about getting restricted to the hypothetical-inductive (empiricist) idiographic dichotomy versus hypothetical-deductive (rationalist) nomothetic, it is about to overcome it.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-11T12:01:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Franklin de Oliveira Lacerda.pdf: 1235599 bytes, checksum: d0e65b97b6d07d91ce5561b4c2a08518 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-11T12:01:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Franklin de Oliveira Lacerda.pdf: 1235599 bytes, checksum: d0e65b97b6d07d91ce5561b4c2a08518 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In 1985, Brazilian industry experienced its peak, accounting approximately for 25% of the value added to GDP. This participation, however, has been falling steadily ever since and currently corresponds to 15%. This loss of importance of the industry raises several doubts and challenges, once since 1930 the industrialization process is present in the debates on economic development in periphery countries, including Brazil. This deindustrialization movement seems to be related to the Brazilian choice for industrialization through transnational capital. This choice did not take into account the fact that this capital has its own accumulation movement, which implies in global processes of restructuring and occupation of national spaces. This capital travels around the world according to its strategy of accumulation, which can result in deindustrialization processes. Since the mid-1980s, as a result of the liberalization of trade, finance and capital flows, as well as technological advances achieved in telecommunications and information systems, capital has undergone processes of restructuring and new forms of productive organization in space, Constituting new global value chains (GVC). The strategies of industrialization through import substitution and export oriented industrialization seem not to have the same relevance that they had in the past, since the new GVCs decentralized the production chains in different countries, according to the strategies of each individual capital (economic groups), now acting Globally. In this scenario, the present work seeks to analyze the situation of the Brazilian industry to understand its evolution in the last decades and to outline its new position in the GVCs in front of this movement of capital relocation, according to its global strategy / Em 1985, a indústria brasileira viveu o seu auge, respondendo por aproximadamente 25% do valor adicionado ao PIB. Essa participação, no entanto, vem caindo sistematicamente desde então e, atualmente, corresponde a 15%. Essa perda de importância da indústria gera diversas dúvidas e desafios, tendo em vista que desde 1930 o processo de industrialização está presente nos debates sobre desenvolvimento econômico nos países periféricos, incluindo o Brasil. Esse movimento de desindustrialização parece ter relação com a escolha brasileira pela industrialização via capital transnacional. Essa escolha não levou em consideração o fato de que esse capital tem um movimento próprio de acumulação, o que implica em processos globais de reestruturação e de ocupação dos espaços nacionais. Esse capital se desloca pelo mundo conforme sua estratégia de acumulação, podendo resultar em processos de desindustrialização. Desde meados da década de 1980, em decorrência do movimento de liberalização do comércio, finanças e fluxos de capital, bem como de avanços tecnológicos alcançados nas telecomunicações e sistemas de informação, o capital passou por processos de reestruturação e novas formas de organização produtiva no espaço, constituindo cadeias globais de valor (CGV). As estratégias de Industrialização por Substituição de Importações e Industrialização Orientada para Exportações parecem não ter a mesma relevância que tiveram no passado, pois as novas CGVs descentralizaram as cadeias produtivas em diferentes países, conforme as estratégias de cada capital individual (grupos econômicos), agora atuando globalmente. Neste cenário, o presente trabalho busca analisar a situação da indústria brasileira para compreender sua evolução nas últimas décadas e delinear a sua nova posição nas CGVs frente a esse movimento de deslocalização do capital, conforme sua estratégia global

In the first chapter, the term of transnational corporation has been defined, further the history of their development has been pursued, the classification of them according to different aspects and their strategies as well. In the second chapter, I deal with the emplacement of transnational corporations in the contemporary world economy; foreign direct investments and the largest transnational corporations has been pursued in this part as well. The last chapter is created by case study of transnational corporation called Regus.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:30:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Alessandro_Oliveira.pdf: 2368243 bytes, checksum: d997bc9cd7960c4c255bffe22e718e4b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In the 2000s we observed that Brazilian investments abroad had a substantial increase in relation to other periods, and happen by several reasons that allowed a favorable condition both internally and externally. The Geograph in its genesis is concerned to analyze some of the spaces transformation factors, so our concern was also focused on the discussion of how Brazilian companies established abroad would be part of a change in the economic o and political order in the period. Seeking to preliminary information respecting national companies investing abroad, we find that the meat industry was highlighted with two large multinationals in the industry: JBS and Marfrig Group. From this we understand what strategies these groups looking for international expansion. We found that in addition to entrepreneurship, both had broad access to public funding from the BNDES and internal and external conditions favorable. Thus we see that the formation of large Brazilian multinationals is still an ongoing process, but already represents a small change to the national business dynamics, acting similarly to other countries, especially when we analyze the current processes in other emerging and developed nations. / Nos anos 2000 observamos que os Investimentos Brasileiros no Exterior tiveram um aumento substancial em relação à outros períodos, e isso se deu por vários motivos que permitiram uma condição favorável tanto internamente quanto externamente. A Geografia desde sua gênese tem a preocupação de analisar alguns fatores de transformação dos espaços, logo, nossa preocupação também está centrada na discussão de como as empresas brasileiras instaladas no exterior fariam parte de uma alteração da ordem econômica e política vigente no período. Buscando informações preliminares à respeito das empresas nacionais que investem no exterior, verificamos que o setor frigorífico tinha destaque com duas grandes multinacionais no ramo: o grupo JBS e o Marfrig. A partir disso buscamos compreender quais estratégias esses grupos buscavam para a expansão internacional. Verificamos que além da capacidade empreendedora, ambos tiveram amplo acesso à financiamentos públicos, junto ao BNDES e condições internas e externas favoráveis. Assim percebemos que a formação de grandes multinacionais brasileiras ainda é um processo em curso, mas que já representa uma pequena alteração em relação à dinâmica empresarial nacional, atuando de forma semelhante à outros países, principalmente quando analisamos os processos correntes nas demais nações emergentes e desenvolvidas.