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Latin American regionalism faces the rise of Brazil
| Resumo: | In the last two decades, Brazil has emerged as a global actor. Its rise is embodied in such acronyms as BRICS (Btazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), and BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China), which include emerging states from several world regions. Brazil's emergence has been an unintended outcome of its foreign policy, not because the government did not seek international recognition but because it planned to reach it through regional blocs rather than transregional alliances. There are two reasons for this unpredicted result: first, Brazil has been widening the gap with its neighbours; second, the organizations it has created as regional means to global ends have not delivered as expected. This chapter analyses Brazil's regional strategies and the region,s reactions along three dimensions: power struggle (politics), interest coordination (policy), and community building (polity). It shows that most South American neighbours have followed Brazil,s lead only in exchange for material compensation, which has been limited and sporadic, and have either dragged their feet (as in the Common Market of the South (MERCosuR)) or created alternative organizations (such as the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) or the pacific Alliance) rather than bandwagoning (as in the union of south American Nations (UNASUR)) when there was little on offer. |
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| Autores principais: | Malamud, Andrés |
| Assunto: | Regionalism Brasil MERCosuR Foreign policy |
| Ano: | 2016 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | In the last two decades, Brazil has emerged as a global actor. Its rise is embodied in such acronyms as BRICS (Btazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa), and BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China), which include emerging states from several world regions. Brazil's emergence has been an unintended outcome of its foreign policy, not because the government did not seek international recognition but because it planned to reach it through regional blocs rather than transregional alliances. There are two reasons for this unpredicted result: first, Brazil has been widening the gap with its neighbours; second, the organizations it has created as regional means to global ends have not delivered as expected. This chapter analyses Brazil's regional strategies and the region,s reactions along three dimensions: power struggle (politics), interest coordination (policy), and community building (polity). It shows that most South American neighbours have followed Brazil,s lead only in exchange for material compensation, which has been limited and sporadic, and have either dragged their feet (as in the Common Market of the South (MERCosuR)) or created alternative organizations (such as the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) or the pacific Alliance) rather than bandwagoning (as in the union of south American Nations (UNASUR)) when there was little on offer. |
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