The patterns of educational cooperation - the case of US-Brazil relations, and Fullbright-CAPES

The main objective of this paper is to analyse the fundamentals and the nature of educational cooperation engaged between the United States and Brazil in the last decade. The argument is that the bilateral cooperation in education, research and development, traditional and somehow sophisticated, surpassed the level of a simple collaboration, and evolves into a multidimensional relationship, shaped as a "strategic partnership". It took place as a consequence of the densification of the programs, and diversification of funding modalities, but specially as a result of the growing importance assumed by the main actors involved - Fulbright Commission and Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES).