Rupturas e continuidades no padrão organizacional e decisório do ministério das relações exteriores

Abstract

The aim of this article is to understand how the decision process in Brazil's foreign policy is structured, with an emphasis on the inter-bureaucratic dynamics during 20 years (1988-2007), marked out by the time restrictions of the research. Therefore, indicators were established, which allow investigation of the conclusions as to whether decision-making is centralized or horizontalized in its intra-bureaucratic structure, whether it is insulated from or open to dialogue with other government agencies.