The original text, in Portuguese, is the first chapter of a book published on May 26, 2008: Cardoso, F.H. (2008). Um mundo surpreedente. In: O. de Barros, & F. Giambiagi (Org), Brasil globalizado: o Brasil em um mundo surpreendente (pp. 3-62). Sao Paulo, Brazil: Campus-Elsevier.
IDDRI has published this text in the Idées pour le débat collection for the conference debate “Democracy in Latin America and Globalization”, with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Alain Touraine and Laurence Tubiana. This special conference held in Paris, on June 12, 2008, is organized in partnership with Sciences Po.
