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...
Category - Thematic
“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...
Por Oliver Stuenkel* Al final, fue una decisión fácil. Con las elecciones reñidas el próximo año, la Presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rouseff, prefirió no...
In the end, it was an easy choice. With a tight election race looming next year, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff preferred not to risk being...
As was expected, BRICS leaders have agreed on the creation of a $100 billion pool of currency reserves, taking an important step in the...
The past weeks have been unusually turbulent for foreign policy makers and analysts in Brazil. Not only did Dilma substitute Brazil’s...
After years of stellar growth, the BRICS have plunged into economic turmoil. Not a single week passes without more bad news from emerging...
Since the 4th BRICS Summit in Delhi in March 2012, things seem to have largely gone downhill for the BRICS members. Brazil’s economy has...
On February 21st 2012, a discussion organized by the Permanent Mission of Brazil on the concept of ‘Responsibility while Protecting’ (RwP) was held...
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China. By David J. Silbey. Hill and Wang; 304 pages; R$20.16 (Kindle edition, Amazon.com.br) The...
Oliver Stuenkel é professor adjunto de Relações Internacionais da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) em São Paulo; membro não residente do Global...
Two years ago, after the 5th IBSA Summit in South Africa, I argued that IBSA had turned into an important political platform, writing that...