Idealab: “Emerging Powers and Global Challenges: A perspective from Brazil” on Friday, 29.07. at 15:00
Emerging Powers and Global Challenges: A perspective from Brazil
As Brazil rises, there is a growing domestic debate about how to think of both its own role and the new realities of an increasingly multipolar system. While there is a near consensus that Brazil’s newfound economic strength should translate into a more prominent international role, there is little agreement on what the country should stand for. The government continues to call for a “more democratic world order”, yet there is a growing awareness that Brazil may no longer be able to represent the world’s disadvantaged as it once used to. This uncertainty becomes obvious when analyzing a series of issue areas that play an ever larger role both in Brazilian academia and in the media: Regional leadership, foreign aid policy, human rights policy, and Brazil’s ambivalent relations to China.
Besides being a GPPi fellow, Oliver Stuenkel is Assistant Professor at the Center of International Relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. He has published many articles and commentaries on Brazil and Indian foreign policy and their impact on global governance. For more information on his activities visit his profile: http://www.gppi.net/?id=1676
