O Brasil e a convenção-quadro para controle do tabaco

Abstract

Globalization is a phenomenon with historical precedents that changed the dynamics of relations between states and transnational corporations. Its conse-quences strengthen and weaken these two actors depending on the subject treated. The Tobacco Industry is an example of an actor that was strengthened with the globalization-Through the creation of a global network of communication and ex-change. The states were strongly affected by this fact and its new policies for con-tainment of smoking me were not effective alone. The creation of the international tobacco, started in 1999, was the recognition of the need for international coopera-tion to strengthen the policies adopted internally. Thus the use of international re-gimes as instruments of power is the central question of this monograph.