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- Title
1996-2016 - A CPLP, uma organização para quê?
- Authors
Cahen, Michel
- Abstract
The Comunidade dos Países de língua portuguesa (CPLP) (Community of Portuguese-language Countries) was founded in Lisbon on 17 July 1996, after a difficult gestation process. A seri - ous divergence quickly asserted itself between a Luso-tropicalist / Luso-Brazilian wing that sought a community of peoples of the "same origin" rooted in "centuries of co-existence," and a pragmatic African wing that perceived the CPLP as a tool to enhance the international standing of the CPLP's member countries. The CPLP found itself frequently paralyzed by its consensus requirement, given that it encompassed political regimes as divergent as parliamentary democracies, one-party or hegemonic party regimes, and even ferocious dictatorships, in the recent instance of Equatorial Guinea. Nonetheless, the CPLP reinforced a space where a popular Lusophony found a means of expression.
- Subjects
POLITICAL parties; PORTUGUESE-speaking countries; AUTHORITARIANISM; HEGEMONY; DEMOCRACY; PORTUGUESE language
- Publication
Portuguese Studies Review, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
1057-1515
- Publication type
Article