IntroduçãoDurante os anos 70 um grupo de países experimentou um crescimento industrial acelerado, junto com uma busca de uma liderança nos âmbitos regional e internacional, assim como reivindicação de novas formulações no ordenamento internacional. A cooperação sul-sul entrou então para a agenda das políticas exteriores tanto de Estados system-affeting (que dispõem de recursos suficientes para, junto com atuação internacional ativa, afetar o andamento de certos temas da política internacional) quanto dos países identificados mais recentemente como "grandes mercados emergentes". 1 No caso do Brasil, embora o país tenha atuado historicamente em marcos de arenas multilaterais de cunho terceiro-mundista, é a partir de 1993, com a ascensão de Itamar Franco, que o país buscará um novo tipo de cooperação sul-sul, nos marcos de uma nova ordem internacional marcada por ações mais isoladas da dimensão Norte-Sul ou pela volatibilidade das alianças organizadas na defesa de temas específicos.Segundo Lima 2 países como o Brasil adotam um comportamento internacional de natureza multifacetada que buscam, ao mesmo tempo, beneficiar-se das possibilidades do sistema internacional, remodelá-lo no papel de liderança visando beneficiar os países do Sul e atuar no contexto regional com uma perspectiva de hegemonia.Assim, com estratégias de ação, tônicas e protagonismos diferentes, entre 1993 e 2006, a diplomacia brasileira buscou implementar tanto a cooperação sul-sul

The aim of this article is to analyze Brazil's foreign policy towards the South American region during President Lula's administration. As such, the article intends to highlight two specific dimensions: the extent to which foreign policy during this period has differed from previous periods and the relative importance granted by Brazilian diplomacy to recent cooperation and integration efforts, more specifically the Unasur and Mercosur. The article argues that the Lula administration has behaved differently from its predecessors by prioritizing the building up of Brazilian leadership in South America on several different fronts, especially by strengthening multilateral institutions in the region

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In recent times the interaction between democracy and foreign policy has begun to be studied and theorized in Brazil. The link between politics and foreign policy is not new, however, the focus of this article is on the shifts that have taken place since t he beginning of the democratic regime. Its aim is to identify changes in Brazilian foreign policy based on ideas and political preferences due to alternation of governments; and deconstruct the idea that Brazilian foreign policy is a state policy, limited to superficial changes. Following a discussion of the recent literature about changes in foreign policy, the article maps the changes that occurred between 1990 and 2003 and analyses Brazilian foreign policy behavior towards South America during the Worker's Party administrations. Based on a comparative perspective, it examines the changes in Brazilian behavior toward the region during the Temer administration. This was the area where foreign policy experienced strongest transformations. Finally, the article briefly points out the changes that occurred in foreign policy towards South America at the beginning of Bolsonaro's administration. The methodology, especially in relation to the Temer and Bolsonaro administrations, uses press material and interviews with foreign policymakers.

The article concentrates on the role which the strategic partnership with the European Union played in Brazilian foreign policy from 2007 to 2015, and the shift of focus that took place during the Lula and Dilma Rousseff administrations. It analyses the progress of such strategic partnership and the exchanges per sector carried out within related frameworks. It also discusses and segregates the so-called sector dialogues into two types and argues that, since the beginning of the Rousseff administration, multilateral exchanges encountered growing obstacles to becoming successful, whereas bilateral dialogues found increasingly favorable ground.Keywords: Brazilian Foreign Policy; Strategic Partnership; European Union; Sector Dialogues. AcknowledgementsFunding information: Bolsa de Produtividade em Pesquisa, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico -CNPq, Brazil).Received: April 19, 2016 Accepted: October 6, 2016 Introduction D iplomatic relations between Brazil and the European Community date back to 1960. Throughout the 1980s, these relations were strengthened politically and in terms of cooperation, and in 1992 a framework cooperation agreement was signed, classified as a third-generation agreement. This agreement encompassed a variety of areas and gave rise to some sector dialogues between Brazil and the European Union. In 2007, a strategic partnership was established between Brazil and the EU. This formally included a reinforcement of multilateralism and a quest for joint actions in several fields, including human rights, poverty, environmental Copyright:• This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited.• Este é um artigo publicado em acesso aberto e distribuído sob os termos da The Brazil-European Union strategic partnership, from Lula to Dilma Rousseff: a shift of focus Rev. Bras. Polít. Int., 60(1): e009, 2017 Saraiva 2 issues, energy, MERCOSUR and stability in Latin America. The drivers behind this initiative on the European side included: Brazil's active role in international affairs; the EU's willingness to partner with emerging nations; the perception of Brazil as a potential partner in multilateral forums and the so-far stagnated political dialogue between the EU and MERCOSUR. For their part, Brazil's policymakers saw a partnership with the EU as an opportunity to strengthen Brazil's international acknowledgement and prestige, and harboured hopes that such collaboration would entail a boost in investments and technology transfers in areas of innovation.Since the strategic partnership was signed, two Joint Action Plans have been introduced and a third one has already been negotiated and drafted. Under the framework of the partnership, 33 sector dialogues have been set up in different areas involving a diversity of players 1 . Some of these di...