Essay review: The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War, by Margeret MacMillan (Brookings Institution, 2013) 2014 was a great year...
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Ambassador Viotti, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the UN (2007-2013) ——- Those who argue that Brazil’s global ambitions are...
As she prepares for her second term, President Rousseff risks undoing her predecessor’s foreign policy achievements. While Itamaraty was...
Ten years ago, leaders from India, Brazil and South Africa, which had just launched the trilateral IBSA grouping, decided to join forces as so-called...
Twelve years ago, on January 26th 2004, Brazil’s President Lula met India’s Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi and was the...
2013 was a good year for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. He was generally seen as a peacemaker after he persuaded the Syrian regime to surrender its...
In the end, Xi Jinping prevailed. A self-declared soccer fan, Xi Jinping had long ago signaled that he’d like to visit Brazil during the...
Situation: All conditions relevant to the case are materially the same as they were on January 9th 2014, except for the hypotheticals...
In October 2003, Goldman Sachs published the paper “Dreaming with the BRICs: The Path to 2050”, predicting that, by 2050, the BRIC economies...
————– Disclaimer: Selecting merely ten issues from the multitude of foreign policy challenges Brazil faces is...
The best writing in 2013 on politics in the Global South covered, among other things, China’s rise, Sino-Indian ties, India’s...
1. Fifty thousand homicides More people are killed in Brazil than in any of the world’s most lethal war zones. Between 2004 and 2007...
10. The Global South goes to the polls In 2014, four large democracies in the Global South will organize general elections: Brazil, India...
As I have recently argued, next year’s presidential campaign in Brazil should include discussions about each candidate’s –...
Institutions of the Global South” by J.A. Braveboy-Wagner. Routledge Global Institutons, 2008. 272 pages, $30.24 (www.amazon.com) The concept...
This year, the IBSA grouping celebrated its tenth anniversary. Yet the way leaders in the Global South marked the special occasion was rather...
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Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel is a political analyst, speaker and a Professor at the School of International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) in São Paulo. He is also a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, a non-resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, and a columnist for Estado de São Paulo and Americas Quarterly. His research focuses on geopolitics and global order, Brazilian foreign policy, Latin American politics and emerging powers. He is the author of several books about geopolitics, including The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (Lexington) and the Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers Are Remaking Global Order (Polity).BOOK: POST-WESTERN WORLD
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