Do Concepts Matter? Latin America and South America in the Discourse of Brazilian Foreign Policymakers

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ID6235579
AuthorsFelipe Ferreira De Oliveira Rocha (0000-0002-9978-5703, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Rodrigo Barros De Albuquerque (0000-0002-2315-9095, Universidade Federal de Sergipe), Marcelo De A Medeiros (0000-0001-8385-0358, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
Year2018
Volume12
Issue3
Publication date2018-11-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrazilian Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1981-3821 • E-ISSN: 1981-3821
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1981-3821201800030006
OpenAlexW2903545884
SCIELO_PIDS1981-38212018000300205
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited45

By analyzing the content of 6,523 pronouncements by Brazilian decision-makers, this paper aims to present some quantitative evidence to answer the following questions: 01. How did Brazilian Foreign Policy decision-makers employ the concepts of Latin America and South America from 1995 to 2014? 02. Were South American terms prioritized over Latin American terms? 03. Did the diplomacy of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) invoke the idea of South America more than that of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) and Dilma Vana Rousseff (Dilma)? The principal conclusions we have reached are that South America was indeed more cited than Latin America and that this reached its peak during the Lula years. These results are significant because they corroborate the main conclusions of historians and qualitative analysts on this matter, through using a different approach based on quantitative methods

Contemporary Latin · Diplomacy · Economic history · Foreign policy · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Principal (computer security · History · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · International Relations in Latin America · Law

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