POLITICAL CONJUNCTURE

2007. Commercial globalization is a major opportunity for developing countries, financial globalization, a disaster. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. The middle class is suffering most with Brazil's quasi-stagnation. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. A large interview on the Brazilian economy and the lack of a national growth strategy in a global environment defined by high competition among nation-states. (Interview to Laura Greenhalgh: O Estado de S.Paulo).

2006. Either PT or PSDB have an answer on how to face and overcome the Brazilian economy's 26 years old quasi-stagnation because they lost the idea of nation. (Interview to Rodrigo de Almeida: Jornal do Brasil).

2006. In the end of the presidential campaign Alckmin, differently from Lula, was able to articulate sensible ideas on economic policy. It will not be engough. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. The rich and the poor voted for Lula in the first turn the middle class, for Alckmin. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. Alckmin's economic program - a step ahead, but insufficient. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. Despite a disastrous president Bush was reelected because the Democrat Party did not have an alternative to Irak in Brazil, Lula will probably be elected because PSDB is unable to present an alternative economic policy. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. Political reform should begin by introducing districtal vote combined with open lists.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. In the Middle-Orient the key factor is not fundamentalism but the nationalist fight against imperialism using religion as an instrument. This is final version of the article "Fundamentalismo ou nacionalismo?" (Folha de S.Paulo) that was not published due to editing mistake. In this version I "e Robert Pape (University of Chicago) he studied 375 case of suicide attachs, and verified that in 95% the motivation was nacionalist, 5%, relgious. See also Pape's interview in a Folha, 13.6.06.

2006. In the Middle-Orient the key factor is not fundamentalism but the nationalist fight against imperialism using religion as an instrument. More complete version available. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. Brazil is a mixed country but it is not a racial democracy. Affirmative policies are required to reduce racial inequality.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. As Mexico is in NAFTA, Mercosul does not have interest in having it as a member. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. New developmetalism is a national growth strategy - an alternative to the present conventional orthodoxy. See paper on the subject. (Interview: Folha de S.Paulo).

2006. The organized gang attack to the Paulista police is a symptom of the confusion of the Brazilian society. To achieve reasonable security it is supposed to offer institutional support to its police and to the Judiciary branch of the state.(Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. The United States is a 'contemporary empire' whose power derives rather from ideological hegemony than of military capability. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo)

2006. Alckmin will only win the presidential elections if in the next two months he is able to formulate a articulated national discourse criticizing the present econmic policies. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo).

2004. The ethics of politics is the ethics of responsibility, or the Machiavelian ethics. Both assume republican ends. When they are lacking, we have just opportunism and immoralisty. (Article: Folha de S.Paulo

2006. The 1995 Brazilian Public Management reform was stoped at federal level but is thriving at state and local levels. (Article Folha de S.Paulo).