Leticia Pinheiro

• Rio de Janeiro State University

A obra reúne artigos que analisam a conjuntura doméstica e internacional de cada um dos países da América do Sul nos últimos 15 anos.

The article examines the construction of the concept of autonomy in Latin America and discusses to what extent it can be applied to contemporary Brazilian foreign policy. The article first examines classical definitions of the concept, and then looks at the ways in which it has been used to analyze Brazilian foreign policy for over half a century....

O presente artigo busca verificar a instrumentalidade do tema da saúde para a participação ativa e propositiva do Brasil na política internacional entre 1995 e 2010. O tema provocava discussões complexas, constantes e marcantes em diversos fóruns globais nesse período, quando os governos de Fernando Henrique Cardoso e Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva busc...

O presente artigo busca verificar a instrumentalidade do tema da saúde para a participação ativa e propositiva do Brasil na política internacional entre 1995 e 2010. O tema provocava discussões complexas, constantes e marcantes em diversos fóruns globais nesse período, quando os governos de Fernando Henrique Cardoso e Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva busc...

The main argument of this article is that second-tier, non-nuclear powers face a ‘graduation dilemma’ whenever their key decision-makers have the opportunity and the objective to choose between different international strategies: between a more autonomist type of development or a more dependent one; in security terms, between bandwagoning and balan...

Starting from the perspective that foreign policy is a public policy, this article discusses the conceptual and political implications of the new configuration of Brazilian foreign policy. Therefore, we abandon its automatic association with the cruder versions of realism and bring it to the field of politics, thus recognizing that its formulation...

This chapter aims to analyse Brazil’s regional policy towards South America during Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s government by discussing what kind of leadership role the country was able to play in the region during this period. The authors examine the role played by the policy of International Cooperation for Development on such regional leadersh...

This article aims to analyze Brazil’s policy towards South America during Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva’s government by discussing what kind of leadership the country was able to perform in the region during this time. The authors examine the role played by the policy of International Cooperation for Development on such regional leadership. The centr...

Starting from the perspective that foreign policy is a public policy (i.e. the state and government in action at the international level) this article discusses t he conceptual and political implications of the n ew configuration of Brazilian foreign policy. By considering foreign policy as public policy, the authors break its automatic association...

The article offers a wide-ranging view of the sub-discipline of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), trying to reflect the diversity which characterizes the practice and the research in the field. It also shows how FPA has being developing in Brazil. In the first section a brief evolution of the sub-discipline is traced. In the second section the links b...

This thesis seeks to provide an explanation for the contents of three foreign policy decisions implemented under the government of general Ernesto Geisel (1974-79). It does so by analyzing the decision-making process which led Brazil l) to abstain in the Meetings of Consultation of American Foreign Ministers for voting the lifting of sanctions agai...