Feliciano De Sá Guimarães

• PhD Political Science, University of São Paulo
• Professor (Assistant) at University of São Paulo

This paper reviews the debates among Chinese scholars regarding the development of Chinese International Relations (IR) theory. Using a qualitative analysis of key theoretical texts and related scholarly discussions, we trace the trajectory of Chinese IR thought from the 1950s to the present, highlighting major intellectual shifts and the challenge...

This chapter analyzes Brazil’s rise and fall as an emerging global power and regional leader over the past twenty years. The chapter begins by debating foreign policy’s historical role in portraying Brazil as a country destined to have a place among great powers. It then evaluates how the literature on Brazilian foreign policy assesses the country’...

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...

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...

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 gover...

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 d...

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 identi...

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, Brazil...

Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma experiência interdisciplinar que vem sendo implementada em um curso de Relações Internacionais do Instituto de Relações Internacionais de Universidade de São Paulo entre as disciplinas de História das Relações Internacionais e Teoria das Relações Internacionais. Essas disciplinas foram estruturadas a parti...

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...

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 bureaucracie...

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 politic...

Este livro nasceu da necessidade de intensificar o diálogo entre pesquisadores brasileiros e destes com especialistas árabes do Oriente Médio, por uma melhor compreensão sobre a forma pela qual o Brasil pode cooperar para a paz e para a transição e consolidação da democracia no Oriente Médio. Este tema foi debatido pela primeira vez, no Instituto d...

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 an...

Based on data of panel surveys, conducted in 2010-11 and 2014-15, the report describes perceptions and opinions of the public and societal and political leaders regarding international issues and the Brazilian foreign policy.

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 po...

A Coordenação de Políticas para Migrantes (CPMig) da Secretaria Municipal de Direitos Humanos e Cidadania de São Paulo (SMDHC) e o Instituto de Relações Internacionais da Universidade de São Paulo (IRI/USP) firmaram um convênio, em dezembro de 2013, como parte do esforço da Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo para formulação de políticas públicas loc...

O artigo analisa a opinião pública durante o governo de João Goulart no Brasil (1961-1964), focando nas percepções sobre políticas nacional e internacional. Emprega-se uma pesquisa de opinião pública recentemente liberada feita a pedido da United States Information Agency (USIA) em áreas urbanas. Conclui-se que a opinião pública era razoavelmente c...

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 eco...

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 ge...

The main goal of this article is to understand why the World Bank has reached more bureaucratic autonomy than the International Monetary Fund regardless the fact that both have similar institutional structures. We believe that the reason for such difference is a more diverse expertise of the World Bank compared to the IMF. We claim that a more dive...

In this article, we make the argument that some of John Rawl's "disciples", reflecting on the principles of international justice, have taken a position that is more consistent with the spirit of his A Theory of Justice than the author himself has. Scholars such as Charles Beitz and Thomas Pogge defend mechanisms of international distributive justi...

Most field experiments in social science analyze mass behavior. In this paper we explore the possibility of using experimental design to analyze elite behaviors. We provide an experimental strategy based on a modified “c.v. Experiment” to study the behavior of candidates during elections. To our knowledge this is the first field experiment on candi...

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 par...

The article debates the main communitarian and cosmopolitan perspectives in terms of international distributive justice in order to rethink the international relations theory, especially the constructivism and the neo-liberalism. Moreover, the article intends to analyze the John Rawls's Law of People for the international arena as a middle ground t...

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...

This article aims at an understanding of how the Rodada Uruguai negotiations (1986-1994) and the pressures of developed countries effected the re-orientation of countries´ positions on development in the multilateral ambit of trade. With this purpose in mind, we review the strategies that both groups of countries (developing and developed) used in...