Brazil’s Foreign Policy Priorities

Christensen, Steen Fryba

doi:10.1080/01436597.2013.775785

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“…While Brazil sought to leverage its role in global governance as a representative of the Global South, it aimed also to strengthen its South -South partnerships with regional neighbours through trade, reviving regional organizations such as Mercosur and transforming the Rio Group into the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to exclude the US and Canada. Indeed, two of the major priorities of Lula's 2002 presidential election were the promotion of Brazil as a regional leader and the promotion of democracy in South America (Sores De Lima and Hirst 2006;Flemes 2009b;Christensen 2013). …”

Section: Brazil: Balancing South -South Partnership With Global Reachmentioning

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Emerging donors: the promise and limits of bilateral and multilateral democracy promotion

Cooper

Farooq

2015

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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This paper examines the evolving pattern of democracy promotion by three emerging donors: India, Brazil and South Africa. It first asks how the emerging donors promote democracy through their development assistance. The paper argues that despite the risk of compromising security and trade interests, the emerging donors have adapted to a 2 £ 2 (two by two) model of democracy promotion by which they circumvent risk by promoting procedural democracy through bilateral means and non-procedural democracy through multilateral frameworks. Second, the paper asks why these three countries exhibit the same pattern of democracy promotion in spite of not having coordination among them. In response, the paper provides a structure-agent explanation. The paper contends that the structural constraints imposed on emerging donors are conducive to the operation of the 2 £ 2 model in promoting democracy. While the model safeguards the emerging donors from criticism of being undue interveners in other countries' domestic affairs, it also privileges them with international recognition for being responsible partners in democracy promotion.

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Section: Brazil: Balancing South -South Partnership With Global Reachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging donors: the promise and limits of bilateral and multilateral democracy promotion

Cooper

Farooq

2015

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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“…Ainda que não se proponha a formação de uma aliança militar regional e que o CDS não pretenda substituir ou questionar os arranjos norte-americanos existentes, como o Plano Colômbia, por exemplo, trata-se de uma iniciativa com razoável grau de ineditismo geopolítico. Não por acaso ela surge no momento do conflito entre Equador, Colôm-bia e Venezuela no primeiro semestre de 2008 e, quase em seguida, ao anúncio pelos Estados Unidos da reativação da Quarta Frota em operação no Atlântico Sul, que estava inativa desde 1950 (Christensen, 2013).…”

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“…Nos anos 2005-2007, sua participação no PIB regional subiu para 55,65%. A presença econômica do Brasil é cada vez mais forte no comércio, investimentos e financiamento, constituindo um polo de atração econômica para toda a região (Christensen, 2013).…”

Section: Poder Regional E Liderança: O Caso Do Brasilunclassified

Relações interamericanas: a nova agenda sul-americana e o Brasil

Lima

2013

Lua Nova

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O trabalho objetiva analisar criticamente o modelo de governança regional hemisférica, concebido a partir dos EUA no pós-Segunda Guerra, e as diversas iniciativas posteriores de governança e cooperação regional, tais como a Alba, Unasul e Conselho de Defesa Sul-Americano. Qual o grau de compatibilidade e de divergência entre eles em questões afetas às temáticas da segurança regional e global tendo em vista seus objetivos, participantes e estratégias de política externa regionais de seus membros? Partindo do suposto que coexistem diferentes concepções de ordem regional, quais as perspectivas da construção de uma ordem regional sul-americana tendo em vista a estrutura das polaridades regionais e o desempenho de distintas tarefas de liderança, proteção e custódia regional?

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“…Under President Lula, the solidarity discourse was a central aspect of Brazilian foreign policy (Amorim 2010;IPEA 2010;Ayllón 2010a) and was behind the increase in the number of bilateral development projects entered into by Brazil (Saraiva 2010;Silva and Andriotti 2012;Christensen 2013). The SSDC principles found in the literature are that the cooperation is non-conditional, works on a mutual-benefit basis, is demand-driven, brings together practical knowledge relating to similar socio-cultural and economic backgrounds and operates in a horizontal manner.…”

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“…Interest in South-South development cooperation (SSDC) and the role of Brazil as a cooperation partner has grown in the recent literature, 1 in particular because of the country's increased international presence during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula (Inoue and Costa Vaz 2012;Soares de Lima and Castelan 2012;Christensen 2013). Under President Lula, the solidarity discourse was a central aspect of Brazilian foreign policy (Amorim 2010;IPEA 2010;Ayllón 2010a) and was behind the increase in the number of bilateral development projects entered into by Brazil (Saraiva 2010;Silva and Andriotti 2012;Christensen 2013).…”

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The production of soft power: practising solidarity in Brazilian South–South development projects

Bry¹

2015

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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To cite this article: Sandra Bry (2015): The production of soft power: practising solidarity in Brazilian South-South development projects, Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, ABSTRACT Brazil's development cooperation and solidarity discourse have been portrayed as soft power resources. However, few studies have analysed how Brazil implements development cooperation, and soft power theory itself suffers from a lack of empirical evidence. This article looks at the perceptions of participants in three Brazilian projects, particularly how soft empowerment is manifested through the demand-driven and horizontality approaches to development cooperation. I contend that these approaches have produced a positive image among the "recipients", and I show that their perceptions of development cooperation emphasise the style, rather than the completion, of project activities.RÉSUMÉ La coopération au développement et le discours de solidarité du Brésil ont été caractérisés comme des ressources de la puissance douce ou soft power. Toutefois, peu d'études ont analysé comment le Brésil met en pratique la coopération au développement et la théorie du soft power souffre quant à elle d'un manque de preuves empiriques. Cet article se penche sur les perceptions des participants dans trois projets brésiliens, particulièrement sur la manière dont l'autonomisation douce ou soft empowerment se manifeste à travers les approches de la coopération au développement centrées sur la demande et l'horizontalité. Je soutiens que ces approches sont vues positivement par les « récipiendaires » et je montre que leurs perceptions de la coopération au développement mettent en exergue le modèle du projet plutôt que ses résultats.

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Brazil’s Foreign Policy Priorities

Cited by 45 publications

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Emerging donors: the promise and limits of bilateral and multilateral democracy promotion

Emerging donors: the promise and limits of bilateral and multilateral democracy promotion

Relações interamericanas: a nova agenda sul-americana e o Brasil

The production of soft power: practising solidarity in Brazilian South–South development projects

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