February 13, 2012 In a country where defence policy has traditionally not been a key aspect of overall foreign policy, seeing a former...
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In a country where defense policy has traditionally not been a key aspect of overall foreign policy, seeing a former powerful foreign minister assume...
Last week Brazil’s government at last announced that it would develop a program to attract more qualified immigrants, thus heeding calls...
One of the key questions for Brazilian decision makers – both in domestic and foreign policy – this year will be how to deal with...
These days diplomats in Brasília, Moscow, New Delhi, Beijing and Pretoria are busily preparing for the 4th BRICS Summit, to be held on March 29 in...
On Wednesday I’ll participate in a debate about Brazil’s growing role in Africa at the 7th International Turkish – African...
“Brazil fears massive entry of immigrants” wrote Brazil’s O Globo, a daily from Rio de Janeiro, in today’s edition. In...
Global Times | January 09, 2012 21:23 By Xu Ming Last year was a big one for the BRIC group of developing nations, Brazil, Russia, India, and China...
Cartoon: Benett, Folha de São Paulo As a report earlier this week by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR)...
1. How immigration will change Brazil (April 10) As we’re stuck in traffic on Avenida Paulista, São Paulo’s most famous boulevard, the...
Book review: The New Brazil. By Riordan Roett. Brookings Institutions Press, 2011. 178 pages. $19.79 (kindle, amazon.com) In this concise and very...
Prior to a recent meeting of Latin American policy makers and academics in Rio de Janeiro, I asked a participant from Ecuador whether he’d...
Yesterday a group of researchers from the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), a large publicly financed think...
Last Friday I visited the Mercosur Secretariat in Montevideo, Uruguay’s capital, where I met with several of its permanent staff to speak about...
This week the New York Times published the results of a poll in which it asked hundreds of chief executives and chairmen to select the top...
In his recent column in the Financial Times, entitled “A Story of Brics without mortar”, Philip Stephens writes that it is “time to...