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Brazilian political scientists and the Cold War: Soviet hearts, North-American minds (1966–1988)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2021

Lidiane Soares Rodrigues
Lidiane Soares Rodrigues*
Affiliation:
Federal University of São Carlos/Brazil E-mail: lsr@ufscar.br
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Argument

The process of institutionalization of Political Science in Brazil was conditioned by the country’s position in the geopolitical scenario proper to the Cold War, strongly affected by the influence of the USA and, later on, by the military dictatorship experienced between 1964 and 1985. The first Brazilian professionalized political scientists were, during their youth, anti-Stalinist revolutionary militants. They had been financed by the Ford Foundation (FF) to pursue their PhDs in the USA. In this paper, I argue that the north-American model of ideological war included governmental and non-governmental institutions. Among the latter, the FF played a crucial role because it had a lot of credibility in state bureaucracy and was able to captivate the potential copartners, who would benefit from its grant, even the anti-American ones. The FF was able to do so because it was keeping a distance from the bellicose image of the USA. In this way, because Brazilian youngsters were leftist, the FF was interested in financing their studies. And, because they belonged to the anti-Stalinist left, they were more open than the communists and wouldn’t oppose to exchange with the USA.

Keywords

Cold War Social SciencesBrazilian Political ScientistsAnticommunism
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Research Article
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Science in Context , Volume 33 , Issue 2: Power, Politics, and the Development of Political Science in the Americas , June 2020 , pp. 145 - 169
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