IRMO Brief 12/2018, "The Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), Portugal and the future"

Introduction

‍The role of linguistic and cultural ties plays a significant part in today’s globalized world as a form of hindering differences and highlighting similarities between societies spread across the globe. In this sense,
international organizations based on past asymmetric relations between the colonizer and the colonized draw upon the long-lasting imprints left by the former empires, namely in linguistic, cultural, historical or economic terms. These organizations are atypical in contemporary international relations, not
least because they contradict the current trend for regionalism, as it is the case of the Commonwealth or the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) with members spread across the globe. The Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, here in after Community of Portuguese
Speaking Countries (CPLP) is an international organization founded in 1996 by Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe.

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