How do Brazilian bureaucrats view their country’s international development actions regarding South-South cooperation? This paper draws upon interviews collected during field research in Brasilia in October/November 2012 with diplomats and public servants from 25 federal ministries and institutions of the Brazilian federal government, all of which directly involved with implementing technical cooperation agreements. The evidence showed great conversion in the worldviews and principled values upheld by the public servants and diplomats in terms of Brazilian foreign policy; it also brought to light many inter-bureaucratic complaints and struggles. The prospect is that Brazil’s international cooperation actions will continue in the years to come, hence it is essential to have a better institutional dialogue between diplomats and public servants who execute the agreements – as well as the presidency – regarding each other’s expectations and operational capacities in order to guarantee sustainability of Brazil’s technical cooperation initiatives. The findings are relevant for better understanding the inner works of Brazilian South-South actions, and can be used for comparison to other countries’ bureaucracies imbued in conceptualizing and implementing South-South knowledge transfers.

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巴西的南南发展合作：国内官僚机构的原则和经验

巴西官僚如何看待他们国家在南南合作方面的国际发展行动？本文借鉴了 2012 年 10 月/11 月在巴西利亚进行的实地研究期间对巴西联邦政府 25 个联邦部委和机构的外交官和公务员的采访，所有这些人都直接参与了技术合作协议的实施。证据表明，在巴西外交政策方面，公务员和外交官所坚持的世界观和原则价值观发生了巨大转变；它还揭露了许多官僚间的抱怨和斗争。前景是巴西的国际合作行动将在未来几年继续，因此，必须在外交官和执行协议的公务员以及总统之间就彼此的期望和运营能力进行更好的机构对话，以保证巴西技术合作计划的可持续性。研究结果有助于更好地理解巴西南南行动的内部运作，并可用于与其他国家在概念化和实施南南知识转移方面的官僚机构进行比较。