The Emerging State We Write: A Critical Perspective on Brazilian Foreign Policy Studies
Since the 1970s, analysts studying the foreign policy of Latin American states have incorporated theoretical approaches coming mostly from the United States and Europe and considered in their work issuesthat were important for Latin American societies and policy-makers, such as autonomy and developm...
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| Summary: | Since the 1970s, analysts studying the foreign policy of Latin American states have incorporated theoretical approaches coming mostly from the United States and Europe and considered in their work issuesthat were important for Latin American societies and policy-makers, such as autonomy and development(Giacalone, 2012: 335). Some Brazilian and also non-Brazilian scholars have sought to reflect on the role of international opportunities for Brazil with the support of the analytical tools from Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and International Relations (IR) theories. The specific field of Brazilian Foreign Policy (BFP) studies was created. The liberalization of the Brazilian political system in the 1980s and the diversification of interests of the statewith the end of the Cold War and the intensification of globalization were factors that contributed heavily to increase interest in the studyof Brazilian foreign policy, as the supposedly increased participation of social, economic and political actors in Brazilian foreign policy making and the more democratic access to information on foreign policy encouraged researchers to investigate their role in foreign policyformulation (Salomón & Pinheiro, 2013). I argue that, beyond the adaptation of specific traits from U.S. and European FPA and IR literature and the production of Latin American “hybrids”, the work of BFP analysts also had another thing in common with many of their North-Atlantic counterparts: their work is inserted in a context in which mechanisms of poweroperate with theaim to dominateasystem of "truth " on the formulation and the operation of international relations issues, in this case Brazilian foreign policy. I develop |
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