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Vol. 28 No. 2 (2008)

Brazilian foreign policy: old and new paths as regards institutional aspects, multilateralism and foreign policy towards the south

Submitted
January 12, 2020
Published
2020-01-12

Abstract

This paper emphasizes the important changes in Brazilian foreign policy after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took up the power in 2002. The paper defends the idea that it is not possible to argue that there were deep changes in comparison to Cardoso’s administration. However, evidence shows that new things are happening as regards the design of a more active and clear foreign action line which led to institutional changes and to more incisive multilateral paths. This results both from the political profile of the direct operators of foreign policy and the aims of the presidential diplomacy. The hypothesis dealt with on this paper consists on the fact that Lula’s administration has not fully broken with the old administration practices, however the aims of global and regional integration are being plotted more clearly and with a higher degree of activism. This becomes clear in three aspects of the Brazilian foreign policy: the institutional framework, the practice of multilateralism and the foreign policy towards the South, the three topics analyzed in this paper.

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