O lugar do controle do tabaco na política externa brasileira

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze Brazilian Foreign Policy decision-making process in the context of the Framework Conventions for Tobacco Control (FCTC), especially the dynamics between the actors responsible for such choices, assuming the predominance of the Executive Secretariat of the national mechanism of treaty coordination in Brazil (SE-CONICQ) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) in this process. It is of interest to the research to analyze the National Commission for the Implementation of the Framework Convention of the World Health Organization to understand why, even with all its magnitude, the tobacco industry is unable to express its interests in the positions of Brazil in the context of the Conferences of the Parties of the WHO. The answer lies in the type of unit of analysis and the way it operates. For this research, CONICQ is a simple group that operates by consensus, where the Executive Secretariat of the body and the Itamaraty are in charge of guiding and safeguarding the decision-making process from industry interference. The dispute dynamics is not disregarded due to the fact that both the industry and the actors that defend it constantly seek to influence the decision-making process, even if they have not obtained concrete results until today. Such dispute dynamics is due to the very composition of the national coordination mechanism of the treaty in Brazil, that is, because it is an interministerial commission characterized by the plurality of actors and interests justified by the democratization of the decision-making process of Brazilian foreign policy.