O Papel Da Cooperação Humanitária Na Política Externa Brasileira Como Estratégia De Soft Power (2003-2016)

Abstract

Humanitarian cooperation initiatives were central to Brazilian Foreign Policy in the two first decades of the 21st century. Based on national initiatives considered successful, these programs have been used as tools for the country’s projection to achieve an international leadership role. This article explores the role of humanitarian cooperation in Brazilian foreign policy in order to show that, although it was not the only policy developed, it evidenced Brazilian soft power and allowed the country to achieve prominence and place its interests on international agendas.

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Addressing Brazil's Structural Constraints to Move on with the Global South as a Political Project

“…In the latter situation, institutional domestic flaws are more evident, be it due to the state's lack of coordination on project implementation, aggravated by the institutional erosion in recent years, or due to the fact that SSC still reproduces asymmetric relations somehow, as we portrayed in the case of the Sino-Brazilian relationship (Salama, 2012;Abdenur and de Souza Neto, 2013;Tambourgi, 2018;Mello Valença and Bizzo Affonso, 2019).…”