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After about two decades of adherence to the so-called ‘Washington Consensus’ (Williamson, 1990), Bolivian politics has experienced a decade of change with the arrival to the presidency of Evo Morales in 2006, the first indigenous president in two centuries of independence from Spain. Consistently with the ‘decolonial’ and anti-imperialistic rhetoric adopted by the new government, one of the first measures of Morales’ administration was the nationalization of the hydrocarbon sector. Some analysts first perceived this event as the beginning of a tense relation between Bolivia and its main commercial partner, Brazil, expressing a pattern that would be followed by other countries in the region towards the emerging local power. Other experts stressed that such behaviour would coexist with moments of bilateral cooperation, the strengthening of political and commercial ties, and regional integration. In this chapter, we argue that Bolivian foreign policy towards its neighbour is largely conditioned by the domestic realm and reflects the complexities of its national political setting as well as its drive for sovereignty and for expressing its distinctiveness to the world.
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Delgado, A.C.T., Filho, C.M.C. (2016). Bolivia-Brazil: Internal Dynamics, Sovereignty Drive, and Integrationist Ideology. In: Gardini, G.L., de Almeida, M.H.T. (eds) Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51669-5_9
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