Marcelo Medeiros

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil

Introduction The purpose of this article is to present the potential of ‘text as data’ analysis in research in International Relations. From the discrepancy in the proportion of publications that adopt this textual analysis approach, we presented the leading methodologies in the dimension ranging from ‘text as text’ to ‘text as data’ to highlight t...

Abstract This paper aims to: (i) investigate whether Republican legislatures were more inclined than Democratic ones to uphold laws of national sovereignty and whether Democratic legislatures were more likely than Republican ones to prioritise bills linked to the post-national perspective; (ii) assess the US migration laws by considering how state-...

The main goal of this article is to investigate whether the party orientation (right-left) of Brazilian Congressmen somehow influenced their discursive support to UNASUR from 2000 to 2020. To achieve this, the first section performs a literature review about the relation between regional integration initiatives and the ideological orientation of po...

In this article, we analyse the content of the speeches delivered by Brazilian Presidents, Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors at annual Ordinary Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly in the period between 1946 and 2019. Our primary objective is to find out how often and under what circumstances Brazilian diplomats mentioned the subject of...

The article analyses the decentralised international co-operation between Brazil and Europe, focusing on two specific issues that are not the main objectives of the literature specialised in paradiplomacy studies: first, how international co-operation can be used as a tool for power projection and second, the effects that the economic, political an...

Recently, the behaviour of emerging powers in relation to R2P has been understood as that of norm-shapers: states that seek to adjust the norm so that it conforms to their particular understandings. In this behaviour, respect for sovereignty is seen as a central concern. In the English School of International Relations, identification with the inst...

Resumo A heterogeneidade econômica entre Estados, os vários conflitos, desastres na saúde e ambientais, assim como novos processos de compartilhamento de informações, levam a um aumento do fluxo migratório. A sociedade brasileira foi historicamente constituída de importantes fluxos imigratórios, depois tornou-se uma fonte de emigração, recentemente...

Which factors determine the amount of diplomatic attention bestowed to partner countries? By analyzing the Brazilian case from 2008 to 2015, we compare the effect of structural, bilateral, and bureaucratic factors in shaping the country’s diplomatic presence abroad, as measured by the ranking and size of its diplomatic representations. Results indi...

How do renewable energy policies (REPs) diffuse internationally? Are there differences between developed and developing countries? Which actors are diffusing these REPs? Also, what predominates when considering REP diffusion, national or international factors? The goal of this paper is to analyze the main vectors and actors that influence renewable...

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 Amer-ica and South America from 1995 to 2014? 02. Were South American terms prioritized over Latin A...

This article aims to define the limits and potentialities of studies on cyberspace in International Relations teaching, research, and extension. Therefore, curricular adaptations are suggested, both in the undergraduate and graduate levels of this scientific field, in the light of what is called Cyber International Relations (CyberIR).

El grupo de los brics (formado por Brasil, Rusia, India, China y África del Sur) ha caminado, desde su nacimiento, por un proceso que ha ido incrementando su agenda en las reuniones de Cúpula de los estados, situación que puede comprobarse por el número de temas tratados en las declaraciones, que aumentaron de 16 a 77 en 2009 y 2015 respectivamente...

How to explain the apparently paradox in Brazilian Foreign Policy to South-American regionalism? The specialized academic literature points to a Brazilian detachment in South America related to cooperation and integration. This distance, however, did not dismantle the already stabilized regionalism (Mercosur) nor prevented the establishment of the...

O objetivo deste trabalho é fazer uma extensão do estudo apresentado por J. Fitzgerald, D. Leblang e J. Teets no artigo “Defying the Law of Gravity: The Political Economy of International Migration” na revista World Politics em 2014. Os autores analisam a relação entre o fluxo migratório internacional e as condições políticas internas nos países de...

This paper maps the scientific production in International Relations (IR) from South American countries by using content analysis’ techniques and softwares in order to identify intersections between theories, methods and subfields. This was done by applying content analysis to 7857 papers in 35 scientific journals listed in the SciELO webpages of s...

Abstract This study analyses whether Brazilian foreign policy under Lula successfully legitimised the country's international identity as a rising power in the eyes of the domestic and international media. Based on a constructivist framework, we have applied French Discourse Analysis to a corpus of 36 official addresses by the President of the Repu...

One of the main challenges of international environmental agreements is improving relevant policy actions to promote adequate environmental responses. To support the work of decision makers, recent studies have used environmental and social indicators to construct global and regional-scale indices. This study aimed to use the Ocean Health Index and...

This article analyzes the role of Mercosur's Parliament within Mercosur’s institutional design and decision-making process by associating its institutional arrangements to potential outcomes over representativeness. Generally, it discusses how representative Mercosur’s chosen mechanism for ruling seats in its Parliament, the so-called “citizen repr...

Methodological appendix to paper accepted for publication in RBPI - Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, July 2016 edition.

This article provides a comprehensive picture of IR in South America by applying content analysis to 7,857 articles published in 35 journals from six South American countries from 2006 to 2014 in order to discover what the predominant theories, methods and research areas in this field are, how scholars tend to combine them in their research designs...

In order to promote human development through direct interventions in education, health and employment, states need the capacity to finance such programs. Therefore, the effectiveness of social policies is intrinsically related to the availability of resources. Latin American countries are historically known by their constrained budget for social p...

Desde sua fundação em 1991, o Mercosul tem sido caracterizado por seus mecanismos intergovernamentais e pelo processo de tomada de decisão fundado no consenso. Uma vez que esta dinâmica situa os Executivos ¬na-cionais no centro do processo de integração, levantam-se questões concernentes à representação e à legitimidade no estudo da instituição reg...

Este artigo revisa a busca do Brasil pela inserção internacional ao: discutir a procura do País por novos parceiros; expor, brevemente, características históricas, culturais e políticas que o tornam o mais ocidental das nações emergentes; e analisar sua participação no manejo de duas grandes crises internacionais, a crise constitucional hondurenha...

During the past decade, Mercosur has been insistently presented as the priority of Brazilian foreign policy. Nevertheless, in this period regional integration has neither deepened nor enlarged. This article aims to explain this gap between discourse and practice by examining how Brazil's regionalism policy is characterized. The analysis is based on...

Based on the discursive perspective of identity study, the article aims to demonstrate how South America's political leaders conduct the region's integration through communicative strategies focused on forging a regional identity. The article further analyzes how such constructions relate to political practices and power distribution patterns. Usin...

Based on the discursive perspective of identity study, the article aims to demonstrate how South America's political leaders conduct the region's integration through communicative strategies focused on forging a regional identity. The article further analyzes how such constructions relate to political practices and power distribution patterns. Usin...

Este texto é uma versão reduzida e simplificada do relatório de pesquisa sobre as modalidades de internalização das normas do Mercado Comum do Sul (MERCOSUL) no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro, com o intuito de formular sugestões para o seu aperfeiçoamento.

This article aims to outline what is the function performed by the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur) in Mercosur. Firstly, the paper discusses the European experience of empowering the parliamentary structure. Then, it analyzes in which way the acts produced by the members of the Parlasur influence the institution-strengthening strategy.

The last decades were marked by the large amount of transborder environmental problems and, consequently, the increase in the number of related international regimes. However, the creation of a regime per se does not guarantee that it be implemented nor that its objectives be fully attained, much less that the issue be solved. This fact has been st...

One of the problems that has attracted the greatest attention of scholars who study Regional International Organizations is the issue of representation. The institutional arrangements that have been built up within these organizations have sought to reflect representation in its twofold expression, in other words, as an assembly of member-states an...

El presente trabajo argumenta dos cosas. Por un lado, que la condición hegemónica del estado de São Paulo en el seno de la federación brasileña lo predispone a una acción paradiplomática endógena. Por otra parte, alega que esta acción paradiplomática endógena coincide con un fenómeno de desconcentración (y no de federalización) de la diplomacia nac...

O artigo discute o processo decisório europeu a partir de um mapeamento do sistema de co-decisão adotado pelo triângulo institucional da União Européia (UE). Na primeira parte, há uma explicação acerca do funcionamento do sistema decisório europeu, privilegiando as instituições que definem as regras do jogo e a forma como a tomada de decisão é prat...

The article argues the European decision-making process throughout mapping the codecision system adopted by the institutions of Europe Union. In the first part there is an explanation about how the European decision-making system works, highlighting institutions that define the rules of the game and the decision-making's practice; in the second par...

A constante e progressiva participação de governos subnacionais na esfera internacional chama atenção para uma nova dimensão das relações internacionais. As razões para esta implicação de governos subnacionais no cenário externo são vinculadas tanto às mudanças que ocorreram na esfera internacional, às reformas no interior dos Estados, quanto às mo...

Mercosur reflects, as many other Regional Integration Processes do, the consequences of a process of Nation-State mutation, as this Nation-State seems incapable of keeping acting as the vital regulator of social life. Nevertheless, the perception of this mutation persists anchored on Nation-State interpretations' patterns. The institutional cartogr...

O presente texto é composto de três partes, seguidas por uma conclusão. Na primeira, propõe-se uma análise do estado da arte da reflexão sobre a dialética centro-periferia. A segunda aponta o quanto esta reflexão se mostra instigante para a compreensão de processos de integração regional, em geral, e daqueles da União Européia, em particular. Em se...

O presente texto é composto de três partes, seguidas por uma conclusão. Na primeira, propõe-se uma análise do estado da arte da reflexão sobre a dialética centro-periferia. A segunda aponta o quanto esta reflexão se mostra instigante para a compreensão de processos de integração regional, em geral, e daqueles da União Européia, em particular. Em se...

Aiming at the development of the study of non-anglophone authors in the Political Science literature in Brazil, this text seeks to approach the issues of both Democracy and Regionalism in Jean-Louis Quermonne's bibliography. It has three parts. The first situates the author in the French political science scenario through a brief biography. The sec...

Neste artigo procura-se associar os estudos teóricos relacionados à temática centro-periferia, multi-level governance, federalismo cooperativo e positive and negative integration à realidade empírica das unidades subnacionais no seio do Mercosul. São ainda efetuadas pesquisas de campo junto a atores políticos e representações de agentes econômicos...

Left-wing governance in the face of globalisation: the case of Brazil The arrival in power of the left in Brazil was not reflected by a clear change in government policies, which limits the scope of alternation. Political redefinitions of the Brazilian left have taken place in the context of governance at multiple levels; in the combination of cons...

Analisa-se a emergência de um novo paradigma de ordem internacional, baseado em processos de integração regional no lugar do decadente Estado nacional, tendo em vista os limites a ele impostos pela persistência da dinâmica do Estado nacional. Assinala-se a dificuldade para substituir a lógica intergovernamental pela lógica supranacional. A ausência...