Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais

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 […]

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 […]

The history of the Cold War in Latin America has been widely written having the United States as the main focus and actor. Our paper puts this traditional Western-centered approach upside down. Using Tom Long’s famous ‘pericentric’ perspective, we analyze a crucial but still largely unexplored case of Latin America’s Cold War – Cuba’s failed […]

In recent years, global history has emerged as one important sub-field within historical studies, emphasizing transnational and global connections and interactions, moving away from classical national and state-centric perspectives. At the same time, within the discipline of international law there has been a “historical turn”, which has been stimulated and shaped by critical legal scholars […]