Brazil. An emerging democratic, global superpower

By Ferdinand Frisch

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Middle- and South America, grade: 1,0, Arizona State University (School Of Politics And Global Studies), course: Latin American Politics, language: English, abstract: Throughout the latest scholar papers, newspaper or political science journal articles Brazil has been termed "an upcoming global power" or "international player" (see Bandeira 2006, O'Neil 2010, Brigag o 2009 and partly Zaverucha 2009). While the term "upcoming global power" is often linked with aspects of economic, environmental and multilateral engagements (i.e. international organizations or trade regimes) within these articles, it also includes Brazil's self-perceived military power and its role in Latin America (regional level) or even the world (international level). Moreover, scholars critical analyze Brazil's intentions as well as the role Brazil will play on the intentional stage in the upcoming years (see Schneider 1976, Baer 2009 and Vaz 2004). Demands have been made by scholars trying to focus on the multilateral role of Brazil in order to "control" its behaviour while emphasizing Brazil's repeatedly emerging domestic problems (i.e. inequality, criminalization, corruption or unsteady institutions). Additionally and for this paper most importantly, Brazil's self-perceived role within the international sphere is mainly linked with its regime form, democratic. Therefore scholars argue that with the democratic transition in the late 1980's, domestic actors and groups emerged on the scene, demanding a larger international role in order to sustain, develop and increase Brazil's international reputation and power (see Brigag o 2009, Zaverucha 2009 and Baer 2009 ). Nevertheless it remains worth to question how these demands take place and how they actually cause a change within the country's foreign policy. Additionally, it will be interesting to see how Brazil absorbs and transfers these internal demands in

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 365621672X
• ISBN13: 9783656216728
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"