Brazil’s economic rise over the past two decades has caused the country’s foreign policy making elite to seek a more prominent role for Brazil in the...
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BY OLIVER STUENKEL Don’t confuse Brasília’s stepped-up profile with U.S.-style democracy promotion. Addressing the United Nations...
In 2014, voters in three of the world’s greatest democracies will head to the polls. In May, more than 750 million Indians will choose...
A lot has been written about the West’s attempts to promote democracy during and since the end of the Cold War. Many leaders in...
At a conference today at the University of Ottawa in Canada, participants from around the world discussed the state of democracy in global...
The emergence of new donors is transforming the landscape of humanitarian aid. Along with China and India, Brazil – once a recipient of the...
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations Vol. 7(7), pp. 310-319, October, 2013 DOI: 10.5897/AJPSIR2013.0625 ISSN 1996-0832...
Reviewed for The Diplomat. China’s growing presence in Africa has attracted considerable attention from both academia and the...
Reviewed for the South African Foreign Policy Initiative (SAFPI). Will the rise of the emerging economies portend just a broadening of the...
China Goes Global: The Partial Power, by David Shambaugh, OUP USA, £20/$29.95, 320 pages Reviewed for: Meridiano 47, Vol 15, No 141 (2014)...
Today the Center for International Relations, based in the School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) at FGV in São Paulo, is organizing a day-long debate...
“Breves narrativas diplomáticas” (“Short diplomatic stories”, my translation) by Celso Amorim. Benvirá, 168 páginas...
Samudra Manthan: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the Indo-Pacific, by C. Raja Mohan. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2012), 360 pages. $17...
“Brazil shows the way” The Hindu, an Indian newspaper, wrote when Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff canceled her state visit...
Oliver Stuenkel is an assistant professor of international relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, Brazil. He writes about emerging...
Aaron Friedberg, suggests in his new book (reviewed here) that democratization in China would reduce or even solve the geopolitical tensions that...