INTRODUCTION
 
Brazil: State and Citizens in Pursuit of National Goals
PAULO C. GAERTNER SIMOES                                                                 3
 
ARTICLES
The Dilemmas of the New Unionism in Brasil : Breaks and Continuities
RICARDO ANTUNES AND MARCO AURELIO SANTANA                                 10
 
The State, Unions and Work Reorganization: Lessons from Today's Brasil
LEONARDO MELLO E SILVA                                                                     22
 
Confidence in Brazilian Unions: A Longitudinal Analysis
LORENZO FRANGI AND VINCENZO MEMOLI                                               42
 
The New Developmentalism and the Challenges to Long Term Stability in Brasil
IAN R. CARRILLO                                                                                     59
 
Brazil's Cooperatin with Sub-Saharan Africa in the Rural Sector:
The international Circulation of Instruments of Public Policy
CAROLINA MILHORANCE DE CASTRO                                                       75
 
Social Classes, Neodevelopmentalism, and Brazilian Foreign Policy 
under Presidents Lula and Dilma
ARMANDO BOITO AND TATIANA BERRINGER                                             94
 
From Stores to Banks: The Financialization of the Retail Trade in Brazil
PETRICIA SALTORATO, LARISSA CECILIA DOMINGUES, JULIO CESAR DONADONE,
AND MARCIA REGINA NEVES GUIMARAES                                               110
 
Political Culture and the Demoncratization of Communications in Brazil 
IVONETE DA SILVA LOPES                                                                      129
 
Affirmative Action and Political Dispute in Today's Brazilian Academe
SALES AUGUSTO DOS SANTOS                                                               141
 
From African Survivals to a Working Class Afro-Brazilian Culture
ARI LIMA                                                                                               157
 
Military Ties between France and Brazil during the Cold War, 1959-1975
JOAO ROBERTO MARTINS FILHO                                                             167
 
The Brazilian Labor Movement under PT governments
ANDREIA GALVAO                                                                                  184
 
FILM REVIEW
Force and Meaning: Political Hauntings in Two Contemporary Brazilian Films
KRISTI M. WILSON                                                                                   200