Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais

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 […]

International development strategies for the XXIst century and post-modern patrimonialism in Africa – Angola and Mozambique, interview with Nuno de Fragoso Vidal by Paulo Menechelli Filho Africa went through a long period of changes during the last decades, which reflected the dominance of International model and theories trying to understand and organize the countries of […]

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, […]

In recent decades, the signing of free trade agreements (FTA) and the creation of regional organizations have become common in Latin America. However, little is know about the support these foreign policy instruments (FPI) have among Latin American parliaments; at the end of the day, the incorporation to ALBA, or the signing of a new […]

In an article published in the New York Times on November 18th, 2018, titled How China Is Rewriting Its Own Script, Ami Qin and Audrey Carlson affirmed that “China wields enormous influence over how it is depicted in the movies Americans make and watch. It’s part of a broader push by the government to take control […]

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 […]

Until World War II, state control over the ocean was limited to narrow strips of sea areas (restricted by the 3-nautical mile limit norm), lines of communication and naval choke points. After the war, however, various states started to make territorial claims over large portions of the seas, unilaterally at first and later in the […]

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 […]