"Overflowing the national": the multiplicity of actors in Brazilian Foreign Policy during Lula’s administration

Authors

  • Amanda Barrenengoa Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP- CONICET)l de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/23142766e090

Keywords:

Brazilian Foreign Policy, Itamaraty, Dominant Classes, Regional integration

Abstract

Summary: This article analyzes some of the main axes of foreign policy.  Brazilian during the governments of Lula da Silva (2003-2011). From a qualitative approach, we translate the government strategy to identify actors from the ruling classes involved in regional integration processes. In this exercise a multiplicity of actors who were part, among the state margins, of the decisions foreign policy and that came from different areas. In this frame they were conjugated, in a conflictive way, integration objectives and divergent insertion modalities. Analytically linking the national scale with regional dynamics, we recover some of the reconfigurations of the international plane. These inquiries cover a particularly relevant in the present, given the recent changes in the agendas of foreign policy.

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Published

2020-07-20

How to Cite

Barrenengoa, A. (2020). "Overflowing the national": the multiplicity of actors in Brazilian Foreign Policy during Lula’s administration. International Relations, 29(58), 090. https://doi.org/10.24215/23142766e090

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Estudios