Die Afrikapolitik Brasiliens – was steckt hinter der Süd-Süd-Kooperation?

Brazil's Africa Strategy

“…These summary-like studies (Maihold 2007;Seibert 2009;Visentini 2009;Macondes 2011) subsume the above-mentioned cultural, political, and economic facets of the Brazilian Africa policy and identify three core motivation factors: economic interest, the search for international partners, and cultural affinity based on common history (De la Fontaine/Seifert 2010;White 2010). Brazil's growing involvement in Africa is thus explained as being driven by an interest in Africa's natural resources, the motive of winning over African countries as partners for foreign policy initiatives in the context of Brazil's "Multilateralism of the South," and the sense of sharing a common cultural ground.…”