Dawisson Belém-Lopes
Biographic Data
| ID | 301979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dawisson Belém-Lopes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dawisson |
| FAMILY NAME | Belém-Lopes |
| SIGNATURE | BELÉM-LOPES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1949-1001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
When agency meets the Global South: Normativity, empirics and anticipated consequences for the study of international relations
This article examines how emerging middle powers from the Global South have exercised agency in moments of systemic disruption and what it reveals about the limits of established approaches in international relations (IR). Focusing on countries such as Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey, it argues that recent crises (namely, the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the conflict in Gaza) have created opportunities for these st…
The politics of emerging middle powers
The Rise and Decline of Brazil as a Peacekeeper
The article investigates the trajectory and transformations of Brazil’s involvement in UN peacekeeping operations, seeking to explain the recent hesitation to assume a leadership role in contrast to previous periods, particularly during the two initial presidential terms of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011). It highlights the influence of international and domestic factors on Brazil’s new stance, including changes in the nature of UN peacekee…
Foreign policy and transnational partisanship in Brazil
There is a visible increase in the intensity with which parties and politicians have aligned with ideological allies across borders. In Brazil's case, the transnational organization of political movements challenges well-established truths about the nexus between foreign policy and domestic politics. Brazilian foreign policy has traditionally been considered a matter of statespersons, being formulated in the halls of the Ministry of Foreign Affai…
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence
Peace as a hypothetical imperative: Brazil's foreign policy standpoint on the war in Ukraine
The text traces Brazil's pacifist stance back to the early 20th century, rooted in a pragmatic approach to conserve resources and foster economic growth. It discusses the role of public opinion in shaping Brazil's response to the conflict, highlighting a pro‐neutrality tendency within the populace. The article also analyses the continuity of Brazil's stance under two different presidents, emphasising that despite a change in leadership, there has…
Brazilian failures to consolidate a domestic nuclear industry: The Role of Science and Technology Policies
Confirmação: O Lugar do Senado Federal na Política Externa Brasileira da Nova República
O artigo investiga o papel desempenhado pelo Senado Federal no campo da Política Externa Brasileira, debatendo a tese da suposta "abdicação". Informados pela literatura sobre as "microdinâmicas" na relação Executivo-Legislativo, assim como pela "prática de consulta ou antecipação de preferências", observamos o processo de confirmação das nomeações políticas de embaixadores em toda a Nova República. Em termos metodológicos, tomamos duas direções: …
Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch
In this article, we provide a framework to analyze the foreign policy overstretch of middle powers, that is, their recent tendency to expand foreign policy goals and ambitions beyond their capabilities. We propose that overstretch results from the interaction of permissive international environments and the collusion of domestic actors to produce foreign policy myths. These myths, in turn, justify unsustainable swelling of foreign policy expendit…
Did the Far Right Breed a New Variety of Foreign Policy? The Case of Bolsonaro's “More-Bark-Than-Bite” Brazil
Far-right populist leaders often take office promising a revolution in policies. They project themselves as counterpoints to other political competitors and defend radical positions regarding a set of issues. These contents may include nationalistic–chauvinistic measures, antienvironmental attitudes, conservative postures toward human rights, and religious leaning. According to our framework, though, leaders will only be able to pursue sharp fore…
International Clientelistic Networks: The Case of Venezuela at the United Nations General Assembly, 1999-2015
This article introduces the concept of international clientelism and discusses how this diplomatic tool was employed by Venezuela under Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro as a means to get political support from several Latin American and Caribbean countries. We operationalize the concept and apply it to assess Venezuelan practices put forth in the region. We argue that the reach of Caracas's diplomatic strategy is broader and deeper than that of sim…
Mind the Gap: Assessing Differences between Brazilian and Mainstream IR Journals in Methodological Approaches
In this article, we assess the methodological approaches employed in articles published in Brazilian and global mainstream IR journals in order to observe the differences between the two. To this end, we compare the methodological tools applied in research articles published in the top two Brazilian journals (Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional and Contexto Internacional) vis-à-vis two other top international influential mainstream publi…
De-westernization, democratization, disconnection: The emergence of Brazil’s post-diplomatic foreign policy
For some time, foreign policy as an expression was perfectly interchangeable with diplomacy, given the degree of leverage enjoyed by diplomatic corps in Brazil's political system. However, there has arguably been some degree of discontinuity in this trajectory, which is noticeable from a couple of trends: Brazil's strategy toward Western powers vis-à-vis the rise of Asia,on the one hand, and democratization of foreign policymaking and the resulti…
Does the appointment of secretariesgeneral to lead global bureaucracies correlate with international power sharing? A longitudinal assessment based on empirical evidence from 1945 to 2016
This paper focuses on secretaries-general, given their relative centrality in international politics, as they embody the power to explore institutional and personal agendas, and enjoy the chance to seek prestige for a country or region. Through descriptive statistics, this article analyzes the distribution of secretaries-general per country, reaching some noteworthy findings, especially regarding sharp changes in recent years
Can International Organisations Be Democratic? A Reassessment
This article makes the case for viewing international organisations (IOs) as global polyarchies. Our argument is twofold: on a theoretical level, IOs often meet the criterion of philosophical coherence, as they are based on rules of membership and decision-making that are compatible with those found in democratic institutions. On a practical level, we believe the concerns of IOs about pluralism, inclusiveness and efficacy go far beyond rhetoric, …
Does participation generate democratization? Analysis of social participation by institutional means in Argentine, Brazilian and Uruguayan foreign policies
The article questions if the participation of civil society actors in foreign policy making would lead to the democratization of foreign policy processes. The analysis is based on the comparison of three foreign policy participatory initiatives – the Civil Society Consultative Council, the Social and Participative Mercosur Programme and the Dialogue and Consultation System – which currently take place in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, respectivel…
Diplomacy as an Independent Variable
A few years ago, I was commissioned by a Dutch publisher to compose a short biography of Rubens Ricupero for an editorial project on former secretaries-general of international organizations (LOPES, 2015). This offered me the chance to interview this scholarly, polite, and sober character with an impressive career within both domestic and global bureaucracies. It is difficult not to be charmed by his personality. Therefore, like Homer's Ulysses, …
Foreign Policy Analysis in Latin American democracies: The case for a research protocol
In this article we propose an alternative theoretical path to study contemporary Latin American foreign policies, evoking the notion of 'public policy cycle' to explain how democratic regimes in the region have been able to expand their autonomy over time. For that, we will first identify the sources of a given country's foreign policy, both at home and abroad, as well as its decision-making and implementation mechanisms. With regard to methodolo…
When Foreign Policy Meets Social Demands in Latin America
In order to introduce this special issue of Contexto Internacional, we first seek to provide a panoramic understanding of the Latin American political landscape. Next, we consider the new (and not so new) development strategies adopted by Latin American states, and their implications for foreign policy and international relations. Following this, we offer a brief review of the literature on Latin American foreign policy analysis and some of the t…
A Construção Social dos Princípios Conformadores e das Normas Programáticas de Política Externa Brasileira na Constituição Federal de 1988
Este artigo debruçou-se sobre a Assembleia Constituinte de 1987-1988 para investigar a construção social dos dispositivos constitucionais que regulamentam metas e abordagens da política externa brasileira. Para tanto, mobilizou-se literatura sobre grupos de interesse com o intuito de identificar os atores e interesses que participaram da elaboração destes dispositivos durante a Constituinte, bem como os constrangimentos internacionais que se impu…
Brazil's Rendition of the 'Responsibility to Protect' Doctrine: Promising or Stillborn Diplomatic Proposal
Brazil has actively participated in the debate around the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) doctrine. More recently, Brazil has even proposed what it believes to be a new approach-the 'Responsibility while Protecting' (RwP) corollary to R2P. By launching its own rendition for R2P, Brazil has attempted to reinforce the role of the UN Security Council in two different ways: First, in restricting the use of force on the grounds of 'Responsibility to…
Da razão de estado ao republicanismo mitigado: Uma narrativa Faoriana sobre a produção da Política Externa Brasileira
Neste artigo, repassamos a evolução do sistema de produção da política externa brasileira desde o século XIX até os dias atuais, apontando-lhe os traços permanentes, em oposição aos conjunturais. As noções de "republicanismo aristocrático" e "estamento burocrático" fornecem substrato conceitual à fabricação de uma narrativa que, em diversos sentidos, diverge das grandes teses que estruturam o campo de estudos da Política Externa Brasileira na atu…
Itamaraty on the Move: Institutional and Political Change inBrazilian Foreign Service underLuladaSilva'sPresidency (2003-2010)
This article aims to provide answers to two questions prompted by the latest reforms ofBrazilian foreign service duringLula daSilva's presidency: How exactly might these institutional changes generate any impact over theBrazilian diplomatic corporation cohesion at large? How could bureaucratic insulation be undermined as an unexpected outcome of this process? To accomplish their objectives, the authors will briefly review the process of instituti…
Octavio Amorim Neto - De Dutra a Lula: A Condução E Os Determinantes Da Política Externa Brasileira
Coordenação intragovernamental para a implementação da política externa brasileira: O caso do Fórum Ibas
Ce travail évalue les mécanismes et les structures organisationnelles adoptés par l'Itamaraty afin de promouvoir la coordination des acteurs gouvernementaux, au niveau interne, en vue de la mise en place des consignes du Forum IBAS (Inde, Brésil, Afrique du Sud) créé en 2003. Après avoir revu les facteurs qui ont amené l'Itamaraty à abandonner son traditionnel isolement, on classe les mécanismes de coordination intragouvernementale et on analyse …
"A política externa brasileira e a "circunstância democrática: Do Silêncio Respeitoso À Politização Ruidosa
O artigo busca examinar, desde a realização da primeira eleição direta para a Presidência da República após a redemocratização (1989) até o último ano do segundo termo presidencial de Lula da Silva (2010), a progressiva politização da Política Externa Brasileira (PEB), sob a égide das instituições democráticas no plano doméstico e a renovada influência jogada por atores e processos internacionais
Did the Far Right Breed a New Variety of Foreign Policy? The Case of Bolsonaro's “More-Bark-Than-Bite” Brazil
Far-right populist leaders often take office promising a revolution in policies. They project themselves as counterpoints to other political competitors and defend radical positions regarding a set of issues. These contents may include nationalistic–chauvinistic measures, antienvironmental attitudes, conservative postures toward human rights, and religious leaning. According to our framework, though, leaders will only be able to pursue sharp fore…
Itamaraty on the Move: Institutional and Political Change inBrazilian Foreign Service underLuladaSilva'sPresidency (2003-2010)
This article aims to provide answers to two questions prompted by the latest reforms ofBrazilian foreign service duringLula daSilva's presidency: How exactly might these institutional changes generate any impact over theBrazilian diplomatic corporation cohesion at large? How could bureaucratic insulation be undermined as an unexpected outcome of this process? To accomplish their objectives, the authors will briefly review the process of instituti…
Mind the Gap: Assessing Differences between Brazilian and Mainstream IR Journals in Methodological Approaches
In this article, we assess the methodological approaches employed in articles published in Brazilian and global mainstream IR journals in order to observe the differences between the two. To this end, we compare the methodological tools applied in research articles published in the top two Brazilian journals (Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional and Contexto Internacional) vis-à-vis two other top international influential mainstream publi…
Da razão de estado ao republicanismo mitigado: Uma narrativa Faoriana sobre a produção da Política Externa Brasileira
Neste artigo, repassamos a evolução do sistema de produção da política externa brasileira desde o século XIX até os dias atuais, apontando-lhe os traços permanentes, em oposição aos conjunturais. As noções de "republicanismo aristocrático" e "estamento burocrático" fornecem substrato conceitual à fabricação de uma narrativa que, em diversos sentidos, diverge das grandes teses que estruturam o campo de estudos da Política Externa Brasileira na atu…
Coordenação intragovernamental para a implementação da política externa brasileira: O caso do Fórum Ibas
Ce travail évalue les mécanismes et les structures organisationnelles adoptés par l'Itamaraty afin de promouvoir la coordination des acteurs gouvernementaux, au niveau interne, en vue de la mise en place des consignes du Forum IBAS (Inde, Brésil, Afrique du Sud) créé en 2003. Après avoir revu les facteurs qui ont amené l'Itamaraty à abandonner son traditionnel isolement, on classe les mécanismes de coordination intragouvernementale et on analyse …
Confirmação: O Lugar do Senado Federal na Política Externa Brasileira da Nova República
O artigo investiga o papel desempenhado pelo Senado Federal no campo da Política Externa Brasileira, debatendo a tese da suposta "abdicação". Informados pela literatura sobre as "microdinâmicas" na relação Executivo-Legislativo, assim como pela "prática de consulta ou antecipação de preferências", observamos o processo de confirmação das nomeações políticas de embaixadores em toda a Nova República. Em termos metodológicos, tomamos duas direções: …
De-westernization, democratization, disconnection: The emergence of Brazil’s post-diplomatic foreign policy
For some time, foreign policy as an expression was perfectly interchangeable with diplomacy, given the degree of leverage enjoyed by diplomatic corps in Brazil's political system. However, there has arguably been some degree of discontinuity in this trajectory, which is noticeable from a couple of trends: Brazil's strategy toward Western powers vis-à-vis the rise of Asia,on the one hand, and democratization of foreign policymaking and the resulti…
When Foreign Policy Meets Social Demands in Latin America
In order to introduce this special issue of Contexto Internacional, we first seek to provide a panoramic understanding of the Latin American political landscape. Next, we consider the new (and not so new) development strategies adopted by Latin American states, and their implications for foreign policy and international relations. Following this, we offer a brief review of the literature on Latin American foreign policy analysis and some of the t…
Does participation generate democratization? Analysis of social participation by institutional means in Argentine, Brazilian and Uruguayan foreign policies
The article questions if the participation of civil society actors in foreign policy making would lead to the democratization of foreign policy processes. The analysis is based on the comparison of three foreign policy participatory initiatives – the Civil Society Consultative Council, the Social and Participative Mercosur Programme and the Dialogue and Consultation System – which currently take place in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, respectivel…
Foreign Policy Analysis in Latin American democracies: The case for a research protocol
In this article we propose an alternative theoretical path to study contemporary Latin American foreign policies, evoking the notion of 'public policy cycle' to explain how democratic regimes in the region have been able to expand their autonomy over time. For that, we will first identify the sources of a given country's foreign policy, both at home and abroad, as well as its decision-making and implementation mechanisms. With regard to methodolo…
A Construção Social dos Princípios Conformadores e das Normas Programáticas de Política Externa Brasileira na Constituição Federal de 1988
Este artigo debruçou-se sobre a Assembleia Constituinte de 1987-1988 para investigar a construção social dos dispositivos constitucionais que regulamentam metas e abordagens da política externa brasileira. Para tanto, mobilizou-se literatura sobre grupos de interesse com o intuito de identificar os atores e interesses que participaram da elaboração destes dispositivos durante a Constituinte, bem como os constrangimentos internacionais que se impu…
Brazil’s position in the Russia-Ukraine war: Balancing principled pragmatism while countering weaponized interdependence
Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch
In this article, we provide a framework to analyze the foreign policy overstretch of middle powers, that is, their recent tendency to expand foreign policy goals and ambitions beyond their capabilities. We propose that overstretch results from the interaction of permissive international environments and the collusion of domestic actors to produce foreign policy myths. These myths, in turn, justify unsustainable swelling of foreign policy expendit…
Can International Organisations Be Democratic? A Reassessment
This article makes the case for viewing international organisations (IOs) as global polyarchies. Our argument is twofold: on a theoretical level, IOs often meet the criterion of philosophical coherence, as they are based on rules of membership and decision-making that are compatible with those found in democratic institutions. On a practical level, we believe the concerns of IOs about pluralism, inclusiveness and efficacy go far beyond rhetoric, …
Política externa democrática: Oxímoro, Quimera Ou Tendência
Fórmulas diversas têm sido experimentadas para a adequação entre a política externa e a condição democrática das sociedades nacionais, mas as dificuldades para acomodar os conceitos de forma harmoniosa permanecem consideráveis. Este artigo investiga, da dupla perspectiva ontológica e histórica, a plausibilidade de uma política externa democrática ser levada a cabo nos dias de hoje. Para tan-to, busca-se subsídio empírico nos países que associaram…
A ONU tem autoridade? Um exercício de contabilidade política (1945-2006)
Buscaremos analisar o estatuto da autoridade política da ONU, recorrendo a referenciais quantitativos e qualitativos, por meio da proposição de uma relação positiva entre a "autoridade onusiana" e um conjunto de variáveis. Após avaliação dos resultados, pretende-se gerar discussão a respeito dos limites institucionais e da natureza da autoridade da ONU na política internacional contemporânea, corroborando-se a hipótese de que o quantum de autorid…
Balanço sobre a Inserção Internacional do Brasil
O artigo tem como propósito analisar o processo de inserção internacional do Brasil sob duas frentes distintas: a da política exterior (PEB) e a da política internacional (PIB). Após breve percurso histórico, nos deteremos na corrente gestão do Itamaraty, sob a chefia do embaixador Celso Amorim e a presidência de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Algumas alternativas e caminhos para a melhor inserção internacional brasileira serão avaliados em nossa tra…
Peace as a hypothetical imperative: Brazil's foreign policy standpoint on the war in Ukraine
The text traces Brazil's pacifist stance back to the early 20th century, rooted in a pragmatic approach to conserve resources and foster economic growth. It discusses the role of public opinion in shaping Brazil's response to the conflict, highlighting a pro‐neutrality tendency within the populace. The article also analyses the continuity of Brazil's stance under two different presidents, emphasising that despite a change in leadership, there has…
International Clientelistic Networks: The Case of Venezuela at the United Nations General Assembly, 1999-2015
This article introduces the concept of international clientelism and discusses how this diplomatic tool was employed by Venezuela under Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro as a means to get political support from several Latin American and Caribbean countries. We operationalize the concept and apply it to assess Venezuelan practices put forth in the region. We argue that the reach of Caracas's diplomatic strategy is broader and deeper than that of sim…
Relações econômicas internacionais, isomorfismo institucional e democracia na América Latina: Explicando as convergências (inesperadas?) entre Uruguai, Brasil e Honduras
Along this article, we sought to apprehend the logic underlying the triangularrelation between international economic powers, structural reforms of theState, and democracy in Latin America. The study is based on the findingsexpressed in the Report on A Democracia na América Latina: Rumo a umaDemocracia de Cidadãs e Cidadãos [Democracy in Latin America: towards aDemocracy of Female and Male Citizens] (PNUD, 2004). The data subject toscrutiny refer…
Balanço sobre a Inserção Internacional do Brasil
O artigo tem como propósito analisar o processo de inserção internacional do Brasil sob duas frentes distintas: a da política exterior (PEB) e a da política internacional (PIB). Após breve percurso histórico, nos deteremos na corrente gestão do Itamaraty, sob a chefia do embaixador Celso Amorim e a presidência de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Algumas alternativas e caminhos para a melhor inserção internacional brasileira serão avaliados em nossa tra…
A ONU tem autoridade? Um exercício de contabilidade política (1945-2006)
Buscaremos analisar o estatuto da autoridade política da ONU, recorrendo a referenciais quantitativos e qualitativos, por meio da proposição de uma relação positiva entre a "autoridade onusiana" e um conjunto de variáveis. Após avaliação dos resultados, pretende-se gerar discussão a respeito dos limites institucionais e da natureza da autoridade da ONU na política internacional contemporânea, corroborando-se a hipótese de que o quantum de autorid…
Relações econômicas internacionais, isomorfismo institucional e democracia na América Latina: Explicando as convergências (inesperadas?) entre Uruguai, Brasil e Honduras
Along this article, we sought to apprehend the logic underlying the triangularrelation between international economic powers, structural reforms of theState, and democracy in Latin America. The study is based on the findingsexpressed in the Report on A Democracia na América Latina: Rumo a umaDemocracia de Cidadãs e Cidadãos [Democracy in Latin America: towards aDemocracy of Female and Male Citizens] (PNUD, 2004). The data subject toscrutiny refer…
Bem me queres, mal me queres: Ambivalência discursiva na avaliação canônica do desempenho da ONU
Neste ensaio, questionamos a avaliação - que, argumentamos, é canônica nas Relações Internacionais - do desempenho da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU). A referida organização, desde a origem, tem sido simultaneamente considerada "cronicamente ineficiente" e "exemplarmente eficaz". Para demonstrá-lo, lançamos mão de dois conjuntos de "episteme": o primeiro, manifesto em artigos publicados desde a fundação da ONU, em 1945, aborda sistematicament…
ONU e segurança coletiva no século XXI: Tensões entre autoridade política e exercício efetivo da coerção
Este artigo argumenta ser plausível atribuir à Organização das Nações Unidas a condição de importante lócus de autoridade política das relações internacionais contemporâneas, a despeito de sua flagrante dificuldade em fazer cumprir, por via da violência organizada, parcela significativa de suas determinações - sobretudo, no que toca às questões de segurança coletiva. Para tanto, oferece-se aqui uma nova abordagem da crise institucional desencadea…
Existe uma ordem econômica internacional? A problematização de uma premissa
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Neoliberalismo como exceção ou exceções ao neoliberalismo
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Notes on social measurement: Historical and critical
"A política externa brasileira e a "circunstância democrática: Do Silêncio Respeitoso À Politização Ruidosa
O artigo busca examinar, desde a realização da primeira eleição direta para a Presidência da República após a redemocratização (1989) até o último ano do segundo termo presidencial de Lula da Silva (2010), a progressiva politização da Política Externa Brasileira (PEB), sob a égide das instituições democráticas no plano doméstico e a renovada influência jogada por atores e processos internacionais
Coordenação intragovernamental para a implementação da política externa brasileira: O caso do Fórum Ibas
Ce travail évalue les mécanismes et les structures organisationnelles adoptés par l'Itamaraty afin de promouvoir la coordination des acteurs gouvernementaux, au niveau interne, en vue de la mise en place des consignes du Forum IBAS (Inde, Brésil, Afrique du Sud) créé en 2003. Après avoir revu les facteurs qui ont amené l'Itamaraty à abandonner son traditionnel isolement, on classe les mécanismes de coordination intragouvernementale et on analyse …
Política externa democrática: Oxímoro, Quimera Ou Tendência
Fórmulas diversas têm sido experimentadas para a adequação entre a política externa e a condição democrática das sociedades nacionais, mas as dificuldades para acomodar os conceitos de forma harmoniosa permanecem consideráveis. Este artigo investiga, da dupla perspectiva ontológica e histórica, a plausibilidade de uma política externa democrática ser levada a cabo nos dias de hoje. Para tan-to, busca-se subsídio empírico nos países que associaram…
Itamaraty on the Move: Institutional and Political Change inBrazilian Foreign Service underLuladaSilva'sPresidency (2003-2010)
This article aims to provide answers to two questions prompted by the latest reforms ofBrazilian foreign service duringLula daSilva's presidency: How exactly might these institutional changes generate any impact over theBrazilian diplomatic corporation cohesion at large? How could bureaucratic insulation be undermined as an unexpected outcome of this process? To accomplish their objectives, the authors will briefly review the process of instituti…
Octavio Amorim Neto - De Dutra a Lula: A Condução E Os Determinantes Da Política Externa Brasileira
Da razão de estado ao republicanismo mitigado: Uma narrativa Faoriana sobre a produção da Política Externa Brasileira
Neste artigo, repassamos a evolução do sistema de produção da política externa brasileira desde o século XIX até os dias atuais, apontando-lhe os traços permanentes, em oposição aos conjunturais. As noções de "republicanismo aristocrático" e "estamento burocrático" fornecem substrato conceitual à fabricação de uma narrativa que, em diversos sentidos, diverge das grandes teses que estruturam o campo de estudos da Política Externa Brasileira na atu…
Brazil's Rendition of the 'Responsibility to Protect' Doctrine: Promising or Stillborn Diplomatic Proposal
Brazil has actively participated in the debate around the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) doctrine. More recently, Brazil has even proposed what it believes to be a new approach-the 'Responsibility while Protecting' (RwP) corollary to R2P. By launching its own rendition for R2P, Brazil has attempted to reinforce the role of the UN Security Council in two different ways: First, in restricting the use of force on the grounds of 'Responsibility to…
Foreign Policy Analysis in Latin American democracies: The case for a research protocol
In this article we propose an alternative theoretical path to study contemporary Latin American foreign policies, evoking the notion of 'public policy cycle' to explain how democratic regimes in the region have been able to expand their autonomy over time. For that, we will first identify the sources of a given country's foreign policy, both at home and abroad, as well as its decision-making and implementation mechanisms. With regard to methodolo…
When Foreign Policy Meets Social Demands in Latin America
In order to introduce this special issue of Contexto Internacional, we first seek to provide a panoramic understanding of the Latin American political landscape. Next, we consider the new (and not so new) development strategies adopted by Latin American states, and their implications for foreign policy and international relations. Following this, we offer a brief review of the literature on Latin American foreign policy analysis and some of the t…
A Construção Social dos Princípios Conformadores e das Normas Programáticas de Política Externa Brasileira na Constituição Federal de 1988
Este artigo debruçou-se sobre a Assembleia Constituinte de 1987-1988 para investigar a construção social dos dispositivos constitucionais que regulamentam metas e abordagens da política externa brasileira. Para tanto, mobilizou-se literatura sobre grupos de interesse com o intuito de identificar os atores e interesses que participaram da elaboração destes dispositivos durante a Constituinte, bem como os constrangimentos internacionais que se impu…
Does participation generate democratization? Analysis of social participation by institutional means in Argentine, Brazilian and Uruguayan foreign policies
The article questions if the participation of civil society actors in foreign policy making would lead to the democratization of foreign policy processes. The analysis is based on the comparison of three foreign policy participatory initiatives – the Civil Society Consultative Council, the Social and Participative Mercosur Programme and the Dialogue and Consultation System – which currently take place in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, respectivel…
Diplomacy as an Independent Variable
A few years ago, I was commissioned by a Dutch publisher to compose a short biography of Rubens Ricupero for an editorial project on former secretaries-general of international organizations (LOPES, 2015). This offered me the chance to interview this scholarly, polite, and sober character with an impressive career within both domestic and global bureaucracies. It is difficult not to be charmed by his personality. Therefore, like Homer's Ulysses, …
Does the appointment of secretariesgeneral to lead global bureaucracies correlate with international power sharing? A longitudinal assessment based on empirical evidence from 1945 to 2016
This paper focuses on secretaries-general, given their relative centrality in international politics, as they embody the power to explore institutional and personal agendas, and enjoy the chance to seek prestige for a country or region. Through descriptive statistics, this article analyzes the distribution of secretaries-general per country, reaching some noteworthy findings, especially regarding sharp changes in recent years
Can International Organisations Be Democratic? A Reassessment
This article makes the case for viewing international organisations (IOs) as global polyarchies. Our argument is twofold: on a theoretical level, IOs often meet the criterion of philosophical coherence, as they are based on rules of membership and decision-making that are compatible with those found in democratic institutions. On a practical level, we believe the concerns of IOs about pluralism, inclusiveness and efficacy go far beyond rhetoric, …
De-westernization, democratization, disconnection: The emergence of Brazil’s post-diplomatic foreign policy
For some time, foreign policy as an expression was perfectly interchangeable with diplomacy, given the degree of leverage enjoyed by diplomatic corps in Brazil's political system. However, there has arguably been some degree of discontinuity in this trajectory, which is noticeable from a couple of trends: Brazil's strategy toward Western powers vis-à-vis the rise of Asia,on the one hand, and democratization of foreign policymaking and the resulti…
Mind the Gap: Assessing Differences between Brazilian and Mainstream IR Journals in Methodological Approaches
In this article, we assess the methodological approaches employed in articles published in Brazilian and global mainstream IR journals in order to observe the differences between the two. To this end, we compare the methodological tools applied in research articles published in the top two Brazilian journals (Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional and Contexto Internacional) vis-à-vis two other top international influential mainstream publi…
Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch
In this article, we provide a framework to analyze the foreign policy overstretch of middle powers, that is, their recent tendency to expand foreign policy goals and ambitions beyond their capabilities. We propose that overstretch results from the interaction of permissive international environments and the collusion of domestic actors to produce foreign policy myths. These myths, in turn, justify unsustainable swelling of foreign policy expendit…
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