Identifier	Thesis 2386
Author	Cosgrove, Steven R. (Steven Robert) 1988-
Title	A Key Search Term Analysis of Geographic Journals from 1980-2012 : Current Research On the Economic and Political Future of Brazil
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date of Publication	2014
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Abstract	This thesis examines the current research by geographic journals into Brazil's potential as a growing economic and political power, in order to determine what aspects of Brazil have become focal points of academic research, and to examine whether Brazil's growth potential puts it on course to match the United States as a world power in the coming decades. This was accomplished via an extensive literature review, as well as a numerical analysis of 11 academic journals (plus Newsweek magazine) using 11 search terms related to Brazil's development that determined what areas of focus are most prominent in geographic literature. Due to its isolation from many of the geographic core countries located in the northern hemisphere, Brazil offers a unique opportunity to explore the growth potential of a semi-periphery country into the role of a core country. Brazil is part of the group known as BRICSAM (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Mexico), six major semi-periphery countries with rising economies that are beginning to make a global splash. A large landmass gives Brazil a wide array of natural resources to bolster the country's growing economy, in turn creating the potential to become the de facto leader of South America via the Mercosur trade alliance. In spite of these factors, Brazil has been ignored by many researchers in academia. Rapidly-expanding populations like India and China have become the focus of geographic inquiry in recent years, but Brazil, a similar developing power in a region currently lacking in global economic strength, is left on the backburner in terms of an overall literature analysis. I believe this is due to geographic factors giving Brazil an unearned sense of bravado, as well as a cycle of poor economic decisions that have been repeated over the past several decades.
Notes	"Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geography."; Thesis advisor: Cynthia Pope.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2014.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-128).
Subject	Geography--Periodicals. Brazil--Economic conditions--20th century. Brazil--Economic conditions--21st century. Brazil--Politics and government--20th century. Brazil--Politics and government--21st century.
Department	Department of Geography
Advisor	Pope, Cynthia
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Software	System requirements: PC and World Wide Web browser.
Language	eng
OCLC number	880619301
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