Feliciano De Sá Guimarães
Biographic Data
| ID | 99858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Feliciano De Sá Guimarães |
| GIVEN NAMES | Feliciano De Sá |
| FAMILY NAME | Guimarães |
| SIGNATURE | GUIMARÃES F S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8069-4967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Hindered Reform
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) stands as a central pillar in the global architecture of international security governance. Since its inception in 1945, the composition and functioning of the UNSC have been subject of intense scrutiny and debate, and there have been many attempts to reform it—without significant results, however. In the last decades, rising powers have been the main actors seeking the Council’s reform. In the previous …
Analyzing prejudice against immigrants in sending countries
Prejudice against immigrants has been widely studied in the literature, but analyzing immigrant‐receiving countries is not the same as analyzing sending countries, where the number of immigrants is very low. To address this gap, we examine the case of Brazil, a country that has witnessed numerous anecdotal episodes of prejudice against immigrants despite having a very low flow of migrants and therefore minimal material effects on the local popula…
Populists and Regional Organizations
In this paper, we argue that a right-wing populist leader’s support of regional organizations depends on how domestic supporters are affected by populist engagement with them. If the regional organization does not affect groups of the populist project, then the leader enjoys latitude to question the regional institution. However, whenever undermining the regional organization damage a group, the leader does not target the regional organization, a…
The evangelical foreign policy model
The article proposes an evangelical foreign policy model to analyse the relationship between evangelical groups and conservative governments in foreign policymaking. Using Brazil as a case study, we argue that the model is defined by the convergence of views and interests between conservative cabinet members and domestic evangelical groups on four foreign policy issues that are critical to evangelicals worldwide – the relationship with Israel, pe…
Conspiracy Theories and Foreign Policy Narratives
An analysis of more than 2,000 speeches and social media posts on foreign policy issues from four members of Jair Bolsonaro's government from January 2019 to December 2020 suggests that a conspiracy theory called "globalism," which explains current events using a series of intrigues and stratagems carried out by fictitious enemies to undermine the national order, has not only taken root in Brazil's foreign policy narrative but consistently been u…
Structuring Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Issues
This article analyzes the structure and the stability of Brazilian public attitudes toward foreign policy issues. It argues that Brazilian attitudes on foreign affairs are more structured and stable than has previously been believed. It asserts that deep and historical beliefs about Brazil’s role in international affairs, such as pacifism and protagonism, are responsible for creating reasonably consistent and stable public attitudes toward specif…
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue “Multiple Identities and Scholarship in International Studies”
This Presidential Special Issue of ISR is unique in that it reflects upon a conference that did not take place. Unfortunately, the 2020 annual meeting of ISA was canceled due to the onset of the COVID pandemic. What would have been one of our largest and most diverse meetings yet went the way of so many of our plans for the year. But, rather than dwell on the negative aspects of losing our annual meeting, this special issue highlights both the th…
Far-right populism and foreign policy identity
In the last two decades, far-right populists have formed governments all over the world. However, systematic analyses on how far-right leaders recreate their countries' foreign policy identity are still underdeveloped. In this article, we analyse how far-right populist leaders use their conservative identity-set to align with other right-wing governments and how they use the same conservative repertoire to deal with ideological rivals. More preci…
Misplaced states and the politics of regional identity
Whilst there is no shortage of analyses on the politics of regions in International Relations, little attention has been paid to states who perceive that they do not properly fit in the regions they happen to be located in. These are the ‘misplaced states’: they stand out not so much because of material capacities but because they espouse an identity, manifested in different ways, in marked contrast to the states around them. This article asks wh…
The uneasy ‘well-placed’ state
In this paper, we argue that the Brazilian diplomatic discourse portraits an uneasy sense of ‘well-placement’ within both Latin America and the West. On the one hand, Brazil’s diplomatic narrative indicates an aspiration to belong to the West, yet without denying Brazil’s credentials as a developing or Third World country. On the other hand, Brazilian diplomats perceive Brazil as a Latin American country without denying its unique inheritance of …
Theory of Master Role Transition
Domestic Attitudes toward Regional Leadership
In this paper, we analyze citizens’ attitudes toward regional leadership, employing two sets of survey experiments. Using Brazil as a case study, we analyze the first set of experiments with two types of regional leadership—structural and institutional—across three different regional issues—economic integration, regime change, and regional conflict. We found that Brazilians do not support either type of leadership, whether in regional conflict or…
Prejudice, Strategic Discrimination, and the Electoral Connection
Can electoral incentives mitigate racial and class prejudices toward underrepresented groups? We use a pair of large‐scale field experiments to investigate the responsiveness of Brazilian legislative candidates to information requests from fictitious voters before and after the 2010 elections. Our panel study design allows us to examine how politicians’ electoral incentives and prejudices jointly affect their responsiveness to voters with randoml…
Brazil's entrepreneurial power in world politics
In this paper, we apply the concept of entrepreneurial powers to analyze Brazil's participation and influence in international crises. Following Ravenhill (this journal issue), we consider three dimensions of entrepreneurship: (a) the intention to convince others according to an actor's interests; (b) the use of skilful politicians and bureaucracies to persuade partners; and (c) a proactive foreign policy that "sells" its position regarding the i…
Socializing Brazil into Regional Leadership
In this article we show that small powers are able to socialize regional leaders using altercasting strategies. The altercasting operates within the leader's role repertoire replacing the master role—natural leader—with a previously inactive role—regional paymaster. This process is only possible because altercasting empowers domestic oppositions and recalcitrant secondary powers against the leader's initial master role, which is perceived as inad…
From Middle Powers to Entrepreneurial Powers in World Politics
This article uses the concept of entrepreneurial powers to discuss how and under what circumstances Brazil successfully accomplishes its goals in international crises. The concept of entrepreneurial power focuses on systematic evidence of middle-power behavior and its relation to foreign policy tools. Brazil resorts to three agency-based foreign policy tools that are the substance of its entrepreneurial power. These instruments are always mediate…
Public opinion and foreign policy in João Goulart's Brazil (1961-1964)
This paper analyses public opinion during the João Goulart government in Brazil (1961-1964), focusing on public perceptions on domestic and foreign policies. We employ a recently declassified public opinion survey conducted on behalf of United States Information Agency (USIA) in urban areas. We found that the Brazilian public opinion was somewhat coherent, supporting redistributive reforms domestically and a neutralist approach in foreign affairs
O controle dos países do G-7 sobre o recrutamento dos burocratas do FMI
O objetivo geral deste artigo é demonstrar como os países do G-7, em especial os Estados Unidos, controlam o processo de recrutamento da alta e média burocracia do FMI. O objetivo específico é discutir as implicações desse controle no debate das reformas do FMI. Demostramos como esse controle opera no Comitê Sênior de Revisão de contratação dos economistas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa com base em entrevistas e documentos oficiais. Susten…
Investigating elite behavior through field experiment in Brazil
This paper explores recent advances in experimental methodology to analyze elite behavior. Using an email experiment conducted in the context of the Brazilian 2008 municipal elections, we studied whether candidates target “swing”or “core” voters during campaigns. Candidates from all parties – 1,000 candidates in all – were contacted by randomly generated citizens who identified themselves as either core or swing voters. Additionally, we randomize…
A autonomia burocrática das organizações financeiras internacionais
O objetivo deste artigo é compreender as razões da maior autonomia burocrática do Banco Mundial em relação ao Fundo Monetário Internacional. Acreditamos que as razões desta diferença residem na burocracia com expertise mais diversificada do Banco Mundial em contraste com a burocracia de expertise mais rígida do FMI. Uma burocracia mais diversificada aumenta as possibilidades de formação de coalizões com ONGs em torno de policies de interesses com…
Discípulos de Rawls em busca de uma concepção cosmopolita de justiça distributiva internacional
Neste artigo, argumentamos que alguns "discípulos" de John Rawls, refletindo sobre princípios de justiça internacional, apresentam uma posição mais consistente com o espírito da obra Uma teoria da Justiça do que seu próprio autor. Autores como Charles Beitz e Thomas Pogge defendem mecanismos de justiça distributiva internacional mais condizentes com o cosmopolitismo do "princípio da diferença" da obra Uma teoria da Justiça do que qualquer outro e…
O debate entre comunitaristas e cosmopolitas e as teorias de Relações Internacionais
O artigo revisa as principais abordagens de comunitaristas e cosmopolitas acerca da justiça distributiva internacional no intuito de problematizá-las dentro das teorias contemporâneas de Relações Internacionais, notadamente do construtivismo e do racionalismo (institucionalismo). Além disso, o trabalho pretende reclassificar a proposta de Rawls para a arena internacional em meio a tal debate. Acredita-se que a obra O direito dos povos (RAWLS, 200…
O fim do tratamento diferenciado e a adoção da regra de reciprocidade para países em desenvolvimento na Rodada Uruguai da OMC
O artigo pretende compreender como as negociações da Rodada Uruguai (1986-1994) e as pressões dos países desenvolvidos tiveram efeito sobre a reorientação dos posicionamentos dos países em desenvolvimento no âmbito multilateral do comércio. Nesse sentido, revisamos as estratégias de ambos os grupos de países (desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento) na condução e construção das regras do regime e como esse processo refletia um ambiente de coerção e pa…
"O Ocidente e o "resto
Far-right populism and foreign policy identity
In the last two decades, far-right populists have formed governments all over the world. However, systematic analyses on how far-right leaders recreate their countries' foreign policy identity are still underdeveloped. In this article, we analyse how far-right populist leaders use their conservative identity-set to align with other right-wing governments and how they use the same conservative repertoire to deal with ideological rivals. More preci…
Prejudice, Strategic Discrimination, and the Electoral Connection
Can electoral incentives mitigate racial and class prejudices toward underrepresented groups? We use a pair of large‐scale field experiments to investigate the responsiveness of Brazilian legislative candidates to information requests from fictitious voters before and after the 2010 elections. Our panel study design allows us to examine how politicians’ electoral incentives and prejudices jointly affect their responsiveness to voters with randoml…
Misplaced states and the politics of regional identity
Whilst there is no shortage of analyses on the politics of regions in International Relations, little attention has been paid to states who perceive that they do not properly fit in the regions they happen to be located in. These are the ‘misplaced states’: they stand out not so much because of material capacities but because they espouse an identity, manifested in different ways, in marked contrast to the states around them. This article asks wh…
The uneasy ‘well-placed’ state
In this paper, we argue that the Brazilian diplomatic discourse portraits an uneasy sense of ‘well-placement’ within both Latin America and the West. On the one hand, Brazil’s diplomatic narrative indicates an aspiration to belong to the West, yet without denying Brazil’s credentials as a developing or Third World country. On the other hand, Brazilian diplomats perceive Brazil as a Latin American country without denying its unique inheritance of …
Investigating elite behavior through field experiment in Brazil
This paper explores recent advances in experimental methodology to analyze elite behavior. Using an email experiment conducted in the context of the Brazilian 2008 municipal elections, we studied whether candidates target “swing”or “core” voters during campaigns. Candidates from all parties – 1,000 candidates in all – were contacted by randomly generated citizens who identified themselves as either core or swing voters. Additionally, we randomize…
Domestic Attitudes toward Regional Leadership
In this paper, we analyze citizens’ attitudes toward regional leadership, employing two sets of survey experiments. Using Brazil as a case study, we analyze the first set of experiments with two types of regional leadership—structural and institutional—across three different regional issues—economic integration, regime change, and regional conflict. We found that Brazilians do not support either type of leadership, whether in regional conflict or…
Brazil's entrepreneurial power in world politics
In this paper, we apply the concept of entrepreneurial powers to analyze Brazil's participation and influence in international crises. Following Ravenhill (this journal issue), we consider three dimensions of entrepreneurship: (a) the intention to convince others according to an actor's interests; (b) the use of skilful politicians and bureaucracies to persuade partners; and (c) a proactive foreign policy that "sells" its position regarding the i…
Socializing Brazil into Regional Leadership
In this article we show that small powers are able to socialize regional leaders using altercasting strategies. The altercasting operates within the leader's role repertoire replacing the master role—natural leader—with a previously inactive role—regional paymaster. This process is only possible because altercasting empowers domestic oppositions and recalcitrant secondary powers against the leader's initial master role, which is perceived as inad…
From Middle Powers to Entrepreneurial Powers in World Politics
This article uses the concept of entrepreneurial powers to discuss how and under what circumstances Brazil successfully accomplishes its goals in international crises. The concept of entrepreneurial power focuses on systematic evidence of middle-power behavior and its relation to foreign policy tools. Brazil resorts to three agency-based foreign policy tools that are the substance of its entrepreneurial power. These instruments are always mediate…
Conspiracy Theories and Foreign Policy Narratives
An analysis of more than 2,000 speeches and social media posts on foreign policy issues from four members of Jair Bolsonaro's government from January 2019 to December 2020 suggests that a conspiracy theory called "globalism," which explains current events using a series of intrigues and stratagems carried out by fictitious enemies to undermine the national order, has not only taken root in Brazil's foreign policy narrative but consistently been u…
Public opinion and foreign policy in João Goulart's Brazil (1961-1964)
This paper analyses public opinion during the João Goulart government in Brazil (1961-1964), focusing on public perceptions on domestic and foreign policies. We employ a recently declassified public opinion survey conducted on behalf of United States Information Agency (USIA) in urban areas. We found that the Brazilian public opinion was somewhat coherent, supporting redistributive reforms domestically and a neutralist approach in foreign affairs
Populists and Regional Organizations
In this paper, we argue that a right-wing populist leader’s support of regional organizations depends on how domestic supporters are affected by populist engagement with them. If the regional organization does not affect groups of the populist project, then the leader enjoys latitude to question the regional institution. However, whenever undermining the regional organization damage a group, the leader does not target the regional organization, a…
The evangelical foreign policy model
The article proposes an evangelical foreign policy model to analyse the relationship between evangelical groups and conservative governments in foreign policymaking. Using Brazil as a case study, we argue that the model is defined by the convergence of views and interests between conservative cabinet members and domestic evangelical groups on four foreign policy issues that are critical to evangelicals worldwide – the relationship with Israel, pe…
O debate entre comunitaristas e cosmopolitas e as teorias de Relações Internacionais
O artigo revisa as principais abordagens de comunitaristas e cosmopolitas acerca da justiça distributiva internacional no intuito de problematizá-las dentro das teorias contemporâneas de Relações Internacionais, notadamente do construtivismo e do racionalismo (institucionalismo). Além disso, o trabalho pretende reclassificar a proposta de Rawls para a arena internacional em meio a tal debate. Acredita-se que a obra O direito dos povos (RAWLS, 200…
"O Ocidente e o "resto
O fim do tratamento diferenciado e a adoção da regra de reciprocidade para países em desenvolvimento na Rodada Uruguai da OMC
O artigo pretende compreender como as negociações da Rodada Uruguai (1986-1994) e as pressões dos países desenvolvidos tiveram efeito sobre a reorientação dos posicionamentos dos países em desenvolvimento no âmbito multilateral do comércio. Nesse sentido, revisamos as estratégias de ambos os grupos de países (desenvolvidos e em desenvolvimento) na condução e construção das regras do regime e como esse processo refletia um ambiente de coerção e pa…
O debate entre comunitaristas e cosmopolitas e as teorias de Relações Internacionais
O artigo revisa as principais abordagens de comunitaristas e cosmopolitas acerca da justiça distributiva internacional no intuito de problematizá-las dentro das teorias contemporâneas de Relações Internacionais, notadamente do construtivismo e do racionalismo (institucionalismo). Além disso, o trabalho pretende reclassificar a proposta de Rawls para a arena internacional em meio a tal debate. Acredita-se que a obra O direito dos povos (RAWLS, 200…
Discípulos de Rawls em busca de uma concepção cosmopolita de justiça distributiva internacional
Neste artigo, argumentamos que alguns "discípulos" de John Rawls, refletindo sobre princípios de justiça internacional, apresentam uma posição mais consistente com o espírito da obra Uma teoria da Justiça do que seu próprio autor. Autores como Charles Beitz e Thomas Pogge defendem mecanismos de justiça distributiva internacional mais condizentes com o cosmopolitismo do "princípio da diferença" da obra Uma teoria da Justiça do que qualquer outro e…
A autonomia burocrática das organizações financeiras internacionais
O objetivo deste artigo é compreender as razões da maior autonomia burocrática do Banco Mundial em relação ao Fundo Monetário Internacional. Acreditamos que as razões desta diferença residem na burocracia com expertise mais diversificada do Banco Mundial em contraste com a burocracia de expertise mais rígida do FMI. Uma burocracia mais diversificada aumenta as possibilidades de formação de coalizões com ONGs em torno de policies de interesses com…
O controle dos países do G-7 sobre o recrutamento dos burocratas do FMI
O objetivo geral deste artigo é demonstrar como os países do G-7, em especial os Estados Unidos, controlam o processo de recrutamento da alta e média burocracia do FMI. O objetivo específico é discutir as implicações desse controle no debate das reformas do FMI. Demostramos como esse controle opera no Comitê Sênior de Revisão de contratação dos economistas. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa com base em entrevistas e documentos oficiais. Susten…
Investigating elite behavior through field experiment in Brazil
This paper explores recent advances in experimental methodology to analyze elite behavior. Using an email experiment conducted in the context of the Brazilian 2008 municipal elections, we studied whether candidates target “swing”or “core” voters during campaigns. Candidates from all parties – 1,000 candidates in all – were contacted by randomly generated citizens who identified themselves as either core or swing voters. Additionally, we randomize…
Public opinion and foreign policy in João Goulart's Brazil (1961-1964)
This paper analyses public opinion during the João Goulart government in Brazil (1961-1964), focusing on public perceptions on domestic and foreign policies. We employ a recently declassified public opinion survey conducted on behalf of United States Information Agency (USIA) in urban areas. We found that the Brazilian public opinion was somewhat coherent, supporting redistributive reforms domestically and a neutralist approach in foreign affairs
Socializing Brazil into Regional Leadership
In this article we show that small powers are able to socialize regional leaders using altercasting strategies. The altercasting operates within the leader's role repertoire replacing the master role—natural leader—with a previously inactive role—regional paymaster. This process is only possible because altercasting empowers domestic oppositions and recalcitrant secondary powers against the leader's initial master role, which is perceived as inad…
From Middle Powers to Entrepreneurial Powers in World Politics
This article uses the concept of entrepreneurial powers to discuss how and under what circumstances Brazil successfully accomplishes its goals in international crises. The concept of entrepreneurial power focuses on systematic evidence of middle-power behavior and its relation to foreign policy tools. Brazil resorts to three agency-based foreign policy tools that are the substance of its entrepreneurial power. These instruments are always mediate…
Prejudice, Strategic Discrimination, and the Electoral Connection
Can electoral incentives mitigate racial and class prejudices toward underrepresented groups? We use a pair of large‐scale field experiments to investigate the responsiveness of Brazilian legislative candidates to information requests from fictitious voters before and after the 2010 elections. Our panel study design allows us to examine how politicians’ electoral incentives and prejudices jointly affect their responsiveness to voters with randoml…
Brazil's entrepreneurial power in world politics
In this paper, we apply the concept of entrepreneurial powers to analyze Brazil's participation and influence in international crises. Following Ravenhill (this journal issue), we consider three dimensions of entrepreneurship: (a) the intention to convince others according to an actor's interests; (b) the use of skilful politicians and bureaucracies to persuade partners; and (c) a proactive foreign policy that "sells" its position regarding the i…
Domestic Attitudes toward Regional Leadership
In this paper, we analyze citizens’ attitudes toward regional leadership, employing two sets of survey experiments. Using Brazil as a case study, we analyze the first set of experiments with two types of regional leadership—structural and institutional—across three different regional issues—economic integration, regime change, and regional conflict. We found that Brazilians do not support either type of leadership, whether in regional conflict or…
Misplaced states and the politics of regional identity
Whilst there is no shortage of analyses on the politics of regions in International Relations, little attention has been paid to states who perceive that they do not properly fit in the regions they happen to be located in. These are the ‘misplaced states’: they stand out not so much because of material capacities but because they espouse an identity, manifested in different ways, in marked contrast to the states around them. This article asks wh…
The uneasy ‘well-placed’ state
In this paper, we argue that the Brazilian diplomatic discourse portraits an uneasy sense of ‘well-placement’ within both Latin America and the West. On the one hand, Brazil’s diplomatic narrative indicates an aspiration to belong to the West, yet without denying Brazil’s credentials as a developing or Third World country. On the other hand, Brazilian diplomats perceive Brazil as a Latin American country without denying its unique inheritance of …
Theory of Master Role Transition
Structuring Public Opinion on Foreign Policy Issues
This article analyzes the structure and the stability of Brazilian public attitudes toward foreign policy issues. It argues that Brazilian attitudes on foreign affairs are more structured and stable than has previously been believed. It asserts that deep and historical beliefs about Brazil’s role in international affairs, such as pacifism and protagonism, are responsible for creating reasonably consistent and stable public attitudes toward specif…
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue “Multiple Identities and Scholarship in International Studies”
This Presidential Special Issue of ISR is unique in that it reflects upon a conference that did not take place. Unfortunately, the 2020 annual meeting of ISA was canceled due to the onset of the COVID pandemic. What would have been one of our largest and most diverse meetings yet went the way of so many of our plans for the year. But, rather than dwell on the negative aspects of losing our annual meeting, this special issue highlights both the th…
Far-right populism and foreign policy identity
In the last two decades, far-right populists have formed governments all over the world. However, systematic analyses on how far-right leaders recreate their countries' foreign policy identity are still underdeveloped. In this article, we analyse how far-right populist leaders use their conservative identity-set to align with other right-wing governments and how they use the same conservative repertoire to deal with ideological rivals. More preci…
The evangelical foreign policy model
The article proposes an evangelical foreign policy model to analyse the relationship between evangelical groups and conservative governments in foreign policymaking. Using Brazil as a case study, we argue that the model is defined by the convergence of views and interests between conservative cabinet members and domestic evangelical groups on four foreign policy issues that are critical to evangelicals worldwide – the relationship with Israel, pe…
Conspiracy Theories and Foreign Policy Narratives
An analysis of more than 2,000 speeches and social media posts on foreign policy issues from four members of Jair Bolsonaro's government from January 2019 to December 2020 suggests that a conspiracy theory called "globalism," which explains current events using a series of intrigues and stratagems carried out by fictitious enemies to undermine the national order, has not only taken root in Brazil's foreign policy narrative but consistently been u…
Analyzing prejudice against immigrants in sending countries
Prejudice against immigrants has been widely studied in the literature, but analyzing immigrant‐receiving countries is not the same as analyzing sending countries, where the number of immigrants is very low. To address this gap, we examine the case of Brazil, a country that has witnessed numerous anecdotal episodes of prejudice against immigrants despite having a very low flow of migrants and therefore minimal material effects on the local popula…
Populists and Regional Organizations
In this paper, we argue that a right-wing populist leader’s support of regional organizations depends on how domestic supporters are affected by populist engagement with them. If the regional organization does not affect groups of the populist project, then the leader enjoys latitude to question the regional institution. However, whenever undermining the regional organization damage a group, the leader does not target the regional organization, a…
Hindered Reform
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) stands as a central pillar in the global architecture of international security governance. Since its inception in 1945, the composition and functioning of the UNSC have been subject of intense scrutiny and debate, and there have been many attempts to reform it—without significant results, however. In the last decades, rising powers have been the main actors seeking the Council’s reform. In the previous …
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