The most traditional scientific journal of international relations in Brazil, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional - RBPI was founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1958, in the era of diplomatic initiatives of the Government Juscelino Kubitschek, as the Pan American Operation and the Latin American integration.
The Journal watched and participated intellectually launch the so-called Independent Foreign Policy, assuming immediately a major role in political and academic culture of Brazil.
Transferred to Brasília in 1993, RBPI continues to play the role of a privileged instrument for the study of Brazilian Foreign Policy issues and international relations, constituting an written memory about Brazilian Foreign Policy in the last five decades.
RBPI is a biannual vehicle dedicated to the debate on contemporary international relations in multiple perspectives. The journal is considered one of the leading publications in International Relations in Latin America and one of the most influentional in the Global South. The Journal is published exclusively online in the collection Scielo Brazil, adopting the continuous publication model.
The RBPI was published by the Brazilian Institute of International Relations between 1958 and 2020, when this organization was extinguished. Since then, the journal has been edited by the Center for Global Studies at the University of Brasilia.
RBPI is published at Scielo Brazil with the support of the Editorial Program granted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and by the Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal - FAP-DF.
Throughout its history, RBPI had the following editors:
Antonio Carlos Lessa (Editor-in-Chief, 2004-2021)
Amado Luiz Cervo (Editor-in-Chief,, 1993-2004)
Paulo Toberto de Almeida (Associate Editor, 1993-2021)
Cleantho de Paiva Leite (Editor-in-Chief,1967-1992)
José Honório Rodrigues (Editor-in-Chief, 1964-1967)
Henrique Valle (Editor-in-Chief, 1961-1964)
Oswaldo Trigueiro (Editor-in-Chief, 1958-1961)