http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-trade_economy_justice/hattrick_3349.jsp Comments for "The Brazilian hat-trick, Alex MacGillivray " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-trade_economy_justice/hattrick_3349.jsp <p> Never ruffle the feathers of a Brazilian diplomat. Failure to grant the country a permanent seat in an international organisation may well result in its representatives storming out of the offending body – for good. That is just what happened eighty years ago, when Brazil&#39;s frock-coated ambassador announced that the country would withdraw from the <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eleague/pictorialsurvey/lonapspg6.htm" target="_blank">League of Nations</a>. In 1926, the league was still optimistically seen as a major innovation in global governance, with a rapidly growing membership espousing the principle of equal weight for every country, no matter how small or puny. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-trade_economy_justice/hattrick_3349.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-trade_economy_justice/hattrick_3349.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-trade_economy_justice/hattrick_3349.jsp#comment latin america Alex MacGillivray globalisation Original Copyright the americas trade, economics, justice? Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000 3349 at http://www.opendemocracy.net