Penulis: Marianne Wiesebron

Paulo Vizentini is professor of contemporary history at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is director of the Institute of Latin American Advanced Studies. He specialises in international relations, in particular Brazilian Foreign Policy, and international relations in Latin America. Marianne Wiesebron is associate professor of history at the Department of Latin American Studies at Leiden University. She specialises in Brazil. Recently she has been working on current economic and political developments in Latin America, on problems of regional integration, with a focus on social aspects, in particular Mercosur, establishing comparisons with NAFTA and the EU.