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Potential required readings

May 7th : foreign policy and international identity of Brazil

Miyamoto, S. (2012). Brazilian Foreign Policy: interests and demands. World Affairs:
The Journal of International Issues, 16(1): 24–39.
Casarões, G. (2018). The Evolution of Foreign Policy Studies: four perspectives. In:
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics. Routledge Handbooks Online, pp. 406-429.
Lafer, C. (2000). Brazilian International Identity and Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and
Future. Daedalus, 129(2): 207–238.
Vieira, M. (2018). (Re-)imagining the Self of Ontological Security: the Case of Brazil’s
Ambivalent Postcolonial Subjectivity. Millennium: Journal of International Studies,
46(2): 142-164.
Guimarães, Feliciano de S. (2000). The uneasy ‘well-placed’ state: Brazil within Latin
America and the West. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 33:4, 603-619.


May 8th: Brazil takes off with Cardoso and Lula

Maria Regina Soares de Lima; Monica Hirst. (2006). Brazil as an intermediate state and
regional power: action, choice, and responsibilities. International Affairs, 82(1): 21-40.
Flemes, Daniel. (2009). Brazilian foreign policy in the changing world order. South
African Journal of International Affairs, 16:2, 161-182.
Sean Burges. (2005). Auto-estima in Brazil. International Journal, 60(4): 1133-1151.
Vigevani, Tullo; Oliveira, Marcelo. (2007). Brazilian Foreign Policy in the Cardoso Era:
The Search for Autonomy through Integration. Latin American Perspectives, 34(5): 58-
80.
Vigevani, Tullo; Cepaluni, Gabriel. (2007). Lula's foreign policy and the quest for
autonomy through diversification. Third World Quarterly, 28(7): 1309-1326.


May 14th: Brazil overstretches and blows it

Sombra Saraiva, José Flávio. (2010). The new Africa and Brazil in the Lula era: the
rebirth of Brazilian Atlantic Policy. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 53,
special edition: 169-182.
Gomes Saraiva, Miriam. (2010). Brazilian Foreign Policy towards South America during the Lula administration: caught between South America and the Mercosur. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 53, special edition: 151-168.
Mello, Flavia de Campos. (2020). The OECD enlargement in Latin America and the Brazilian candidacy. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 63(2): e011.
Fonseca, Gelson. (2011). Notes on the Evolution of Brazilian Multilateral Diplomacy. Global Governance, 17(3), 375–397.
Gomes Saraiva, Miriam. (2017). The Brazil-European Union strategic partnership, from Lula to Dilma Rousseff: a shift of focus. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional [online], v. 60, n. 1, e009.
Pecequilo, Cristina Soreanu. (2010). A New Strategic Dialogue: Brazil-US Relations in Lula’s Presidency (2003-2010). Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional. 53, special edition: 132-150.


May 15th: Brazil’s betrayal

Casarões, Guilherme; Leal Farias, Déborah Barros. (2021). Brazilian foreign policy under Jair Bolsonaro: far-right populism and the rejection of the liberal international order, Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Published online: 01 Oct 2021.
Chagas-Bastos, Fabrício H.; Franzoni, Marcela. (2019). The Dumb Giant: Brazilian Foreign Policy under Jair Bolsonaro. E-International Relations, 16 October. Available at: https://www.e-ir.info/2019/10/16/the-dumb-giant-brazilian-foreign-policy-under-jair-bolsonaro/
Lehmann, Kai. E. (2017). Can Brazil Lead? The Breakdown of Brazilian Foreign Policy and What it Means for the Region. Rising Powers Quarterly, 2(2): 125-147.
Reis da Silva, A. L.; Pérez, J. O. (2019). Lula, Dilma, and Temer: The Rise and Fall of Brazilian Foreign Policy. Latin American Perspectives, 46(4): 169–185.
Spektor, Matias. (2022). Strategies of rising Brazil: postmortem review, looking forward. Contemporary Politics, 28(1): 20-37.