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Lula accumulates unforced errors in foreign policy (Brazilian Report)

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva started his third presidential term with a massive advantage on the foreign policy front: his predecessor had committed so many egregious mistakes, straining ties with virtually all of Brazil’s main partners, that simply not being Jair Bolsonaro provided Lula with considerable global goodwill from Washington to Brussels and Buenos Aires to Beijing. 

Indeed, even before taking office, Lula’s promise that “Brazil is back [on the world stage],” made at the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt last November, produced a powerful narrative that was readily embraced by international observers. 

This benign scenario has allowed Brazil’s president to bag a series of early foreign policy wins. Not only did Germany and Norway relaunch the Amazon Fund, which had been suspended under Mr. Bolsonaro, but the U.S. and United Kingdom announced financial contributions, too. Japan’s decision to invite Brazil to the G7 summit as an observer — which had not occurred for 14 years — also showed that Latin America’s largest nation had recovered its international prestige. Numerous leaders…

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Oliver Stuenkel

Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel é analista político, autor, palestrante e professor na Escola de Relações Internacionais da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) em São Paulo. Ele também é pesquisador no Carnegie Endowment em Washington DC e no Instituto de Política Pública Global (GPPi) ​​em Berlim, e colunista do Estadão e da revista Americas Quarterly. Sua pesquisa concentra-se na geopolítica, nas potências emergentes, na política latino-americana e no papel do Brasil no mundo. Ele é o autor de vários livros sobre política internacional, como The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington) e Post-Western World: How emerging powers are remaking world order (Polity). Ele atualmente escreve um livro sobre a competição tecnológica entre a China e os Estados Unidos.

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