So I could write these recent articles, was necessary, of course, to make a series of searches. To write the first I did not have much difficulty because relations between Brazil and Russia are “old” (it is known that since the 30s the Soviet Union had interests here in Brazil). To write the second the biggest obstacle was to select the information because the amount of information on relations between China and Brazil are very easy to find, but many of them are contradictory and not worth at all.

However, to write about the relations between Brazil and India, I had a degree of difficulty. Not because there is no information about them, but because some unique features of both (such as autonomy and political pragmatism) made the task more complicated than I thought.

Historically, relations between India and Brazil are very old (since the colonial period). However, relations between these countries almost went blank in the twentieth century, it remained just as a bureaucratic relations, such as cooperation in international bodies like the UN bureaucracy. The first demonstration of interest in rapprochement occurred with the visit of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1968.

This gesture of Indira Gandhi was motivated during the Second Conference of UNCTAD by the contact she had had with the Latin American delegations and reflected the understanding that Latin America had similar interests with India and therefore could be partner in the process of discussion for a New International Economic Order .

Although it was signed two agreements (Cultural and Trade), due to relatively similar considerations, the bilateral relations have remained timid not to say that non-existent. But multilateral relations have become more intense because the two countries participated actively in international discussions on political, economic and scientific areas, such as the creation and development of UNCTAD and the IAEA.

With the end of the Cold War and the “rising” of a new world order at the beginning of the 90s, the two countries began to realized that the isolation of both would not bring benefits (political or commercial). Brazil begins to open its economy in the 90s (if today Brazil is still seen as protectionist, you reader have no idea of how the entry of imported goods here was restricted and subject to rates that exceeded the value of hundreds products in more than 200%) and, as well as India, Brazil’s diplomacy started to seek for new international partners.

Accordingly, the visit of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to India in 1996 for the celebrations of the independence of India is full of meanings. It was the start of what today is called South-South cooperation.

With the visit of President K. R. Narayanan, in 1998, this expectation of cooperation has been strengthened with the expansion of scientific agreements for medicine and health areas (at that time Brazil was breaking the patent of medicines for the treatment of AIDS - challenging big Europeans and Americans pharma labs).

In 2003, then, it was created the IBSA Dialogue Forum, a coalition that actually has a more pragmatic broad character than the thematic or ideological alliances, with a strategy of representation of interests of the South negotiators in the various forums, without attempting to overlap the other south existing coalitions, trying to strengthen them for the introduction of reforms in international multilateral institutions.

The recent failures in the negotiations of the Doha round are direct result of actions of the three countries seeking to defend its national interests, not subjecting themselves to the interests of developed countries.

Currently, relations between Brazil and India are advancing, and although the economies are not complementary / competing (such as Brazil and China), there are many interests/possibilities in common that can be exploited in order to benefit the two countries, especially after that India signed a Preferential Trade Agreement with the Mercosur countries (450 Indian products have preferential tariffs), allowing the trade between those countries can grow much in coming years.

Finally, cooperation between the India and Brazil is essential for that a multilateral world could emerge. Any international agreement aimed at greater cooperation between all nations can not ignore these two giants, as they ignore them, is destined to fail.