ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a distinctive perspective to the debate over the future of the Brazilian developmental model and its impact on national emergence as a major power. Since ocean policy overlaps domestic and foreign policy, it is an appropriate test case for judging both the nature of domestic economic and political policy impacts and their relationship to international policy dimensions. Analysis of Brazilian ocean policy involved extended analysis of interaction with developed states, because Brazil's general diplomatic relations and more specific maritime relations have been and are likely to remain focused on the industrialized world. Brazilian ocean policy therefore reflects elements of both a deviant and a typical case study, and is accordingly rich in potential comparisons. Like Brazil's emergence as a major power, the broader, related concept of dependency of developing states also needs to be examined in more specific, comparative terms.
