Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais

Covering more than 70% of the total area of the planet Earth, oceans do not escape from disputes over its control. By exploring the relations between norms and material power, Dr Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes shows how states acted to push for an emerging ocean order after World War II that expanded states’ sovereignty over […]

With the world’s population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, according to a new United Nations report released in June 2019, sustainable development (and more sustainable production and consumption patterns) might be the only key to sustain life in the decades to come. In the article “The role of Brazil in the International Commission […]

A country’s foreign policy is the result of the combination of actors and structures both domestic and international. The interaction between these variables is seen in the history of the Brazilian relations with the Middle East, more specifically in its relationship with Israel and Palestine. Taking that into consideration, the article “Brazil’s policy toward Israel […]

Culture is a theme which, within the field of International Relations, has traditionally held a peripheral position but has received growing interest since the Cultural Turn. Nonetheless, its multifaceted nature and the difficulty to isolate cultural factors from other elements make it a concept which is difficult to define and to operationalize. In the article […]

The growing interconnection of transnational security challenges – especially in the current world when key players, such as the United States, are turning their back on multilateralism and promoting unilateralism – will increase the need for coordination among different actors to cope with common threats and challenges. Regarding these global security dynamics, interregionalism has being […]

The cultural aspect of International Relations, traditionally downplayed by the mainstream of the discipline, has gained strength in recent decades. Experts from different vantage points agree that analysis which overlook the cultural context of societies have a limited explanatory power. In this background, new concepts were forged, such as soft power and cultural diplomacy. States, […]

Unequal trade integration is no novelty on the context of international commercial relations. Nonetheless, this paper will address the need for a new analytical framework for a thorough understanding of the outcomes of unequal trade in North America and beyond. In an effort to deconstruct the orthodox argument of free trade areas, professor Germán Reza, […]

Free trade agreements and regional alliances are no novelty in Latin America. Nonetheless, scholarly works haven’t thoroughly analyzed the role played by and, for that matter, the world views of the ones who have the last say in deciding whether foreign policy instruments will be implemented: legislators. In an effort to narrow that gap, Asbel […]

Power, so even the Spiderman franchise tells us, is inextricably linked to responsibility. Emerging powers in both the Global North and South have inevitably been confronted with this axiom as they seek to renegotiate their place in the international system. This article, “Explaining emerging powers’ reluctance to adopt intervention norms: normative contestation and hierarchies of […]

Professor Helder do Vale promotes new thinking about how the Brazilian and global food regimes interconnect in a world in which the “food agenda” face significant and increasing challenges. In the article Local-global linkages in the food regime: global history and the internationalization of Brazilian agribusiness published in the number 1, volume 61 of Revista […]

For several reasons, the role of Latin America in the course of the history of international law has been disregarded. Bearing this in mind and pointing out the importance of Latin America in the reconfiguration of a new global legal order, Juan Scarfi in his most recent article to the Vol. 61 of RBPI argued […]

A União Europeia geralmente é caracterizada, tanto em seus documentos oficiais quanto em análises acadêmicas, como uma “zona de paz, prosperidade e democracia”, que, sob o lema “Unidos na diversidade”, se apresenta como o “modelo” de integração regional mais avançado. Em face do cenário de crises no continente europeu nos últimos anos, a construção dessas […]

In the article “Pax Americana”: The United States and the Transformation of the 20th Century’s Global Order, Professor Patrick O. Cohrs, from the University of Florence, provides a re-appraisal of the role of the United States in the transformations of the 20th century’s global order. According to his argument, this order was not a neo-imperial […]

How International Relations scholars could participate in the emerging interdisciplinary field named planetary health? This question guided Nicole De Paula’s article, What is planetary health? Addressing the environment-health nexus in Southeast Asia in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals: opportunities for International Relations scholars, published in the latest issue of RBPI (vol. 61, n. […]

Os rumos, discursos e estratégias da política externa brasileira são tópico central para o entendimento da inserção internacional do Brasil e seu relacionamento com parceiros políticos e econômicos. Em um processo por busca por autonomia, a política externa brasileira, desde os anos 1960, tem se estruturado de modo a alçar garantir ao país um status […]

Professor Albert Manke, from Bielefeld University, investigates an undisclosed subject of the global Cold War, namely the effects of China’s Communist Revolution on Cuba’s Chinese community, in his article The impact of the 1949 Chinese Revolution on a Latin American Chinese community: shifting power relations in Havana’s Chinatown, published in RBPI (Vol. 61, n. 2 […]

In his article, The forbidden cooperation: South Africa–Brazil nuclear relations at the turn of the 1970s, published in RBPI (Vol. 61, n. 2 – 2018), Carlo Patti discusses the Brazilian refusal to accept sensitive nuclear assistance from South Africa in the late 1970s. Relying on recently declassified primary sources and oral history interviews, this is […]

Undoubtedly, development is part of the core ideas that sustain the Post-World War II international order. By exploring the divides between American liberal internationalists on how Latin America appropriated policy ideas emanated by Roosevelt’s administration for their development, Dr José Antonio Sanchez Roman shows how the construction of the new international order was influenced by […]

Professor Benjamin Cowan, from UC San Diego, demonstrates how the New Right developed transnationally, with determinative participation from Brazilian activists, in his article A hemispheric moral majority: Brazil and the transnational construction of the New Right, published in RBPI (Vol. 61, n. 2 – 2018). His work shows that elite reactionaries were linked in Brazil, […]

A participação dos países latino-americanos na Guerra Fria desdobra-se em uma série de análises, muitas delas centradas nas preferências do ator hegemônico continental, os EUA, e seus reflexos decisórios para os países da região. No intuito de oferecer uma análise centrada nas preferências e interesses dos países latino-americanos, Felipe Loureiro, Hamilton Gomes Jr. e Rebeca […]

The 1975 Nuclear Agreement between Brazil and West Germany is usually regarded as a significant achievement of the Brazilian military regime. It was praised as the Agreement of the Century and enshrined the ambition of bringing Brazil to the nuclear era. It failed, however, to deliver on its promises, as the transferred technology proved not […]

Departing from the literature on peacebuilding and electoral studies, professor Aureo Toledo treats democratization in Afghanistan as a hybridization process in his article Hybrid democracy: electoral rules and political competition in Afghanistan, published in RBPI (Vol. 61, n. 1 – 2018). Why do a fragile party system and non-democratic campaign practices persist in Afghanistan? To […]

Comprising a total of six regulations and one directive, the “Six-Pack” was adopted in 2011 to strengthen the European Union (EU) economy as a response to the Euro crisis. The European economic turmoil led to the blurring of the two main decision-making procedures in the EU: the intergovernmental and the community method. By analyzing the […]

In the article “China, the EU and multilateralism: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank”, published in the issue 1/2018 of Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (v. 60, n. 1), Ricardo Bustillo and Maiza Andoni, both from the University of the Basque Country, discuss the underlying forces that led to the creation of the AIIB and how […]

Marcos Tourinho, no artigo “Brazil in the global anticorruption regime” publicado no Volume 60, n. 1 – 2018, da RBPI, avança no debate sobre mecanismos de internalização, pelas instituições brasileiras, das normas internacionais de lavagem de dinheiro e corrupção. O artigo enfatiza processos pelos quais a governança global para anticorrupção influenciou a transformação das leis […]

In his article Debating US Military Strategy in the Persian Gulf: What is the Way Forward?, published in RBPI (Vol. 61, n.1 – 2018), Eugenio Lilli investigates the extent to which distinct US military strategies have affected the stability of the Persian Gulf – historically a region of strategic importance to US national security. Should […]

International relations, as a discipline, has its origins related to the international quest for peace due to the outbreak of World War One, and, as such, is rooted in American and European based knowledge. That creates a curriculum which reinforces the same knowledge and leaves at the margin different perspectives, such as the ones from […]

O termo Antropoceno popularizou-se nos anos 2000 com os trabalhos do biólogo Eugene F. Stoermer e do químico, vencedor do prêmio Nobel, Paul Crutzen. O Antropoceno representa a transição para um novo período geológico, no qual as atividades humanas são a maior força transformadora do planeta. Em outras palavras, os seres humanos tornaram-se o grande […]

A gestão de Barack Obama à frente da Casa Branca foi marcada por diversos desafios, tanto de ordem doméstica quanto internacional. As restrições orçamentárias e a forte oposição Republicana certamente tornaram o ambiente em Washington mais hostil, e, no plano global, eventos como a Primavera Árabe redundaram em consequências visíveis ainda hoje, como a perene […]

Em seu artigo Fighting against impunity: the Federal Prosecution Service and the Gomes Lund case, publicado no número 1/2017 da Revista Brasileira de Relações Internacionais (Volume 60 – N. 1), Bruno Bernardi, professor da Universidade Federal da Grandes Dourados (UFGD), apresenta uma análise da atuação do Ministério Público Federal (MPF) brasileiro no Caso Gomes Lund […]