Brazilian Foreign Policy beyond Itamaraty’s Insulation and Presidential Diplomacy, by Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann (in Birle-Zilla book)

 Sample from a larger book:

Peter Birle and Claudia Zilla (eds.)

Trends in Latin American International Relations: Shifting Alliances in the New World (Dis)Order

London: Routledge, 2025

Brazilian Foreign Policy beyond Itamaraty’s Insulation and

Presidential Diplomacy: Intermestic Processes under the

Bolsonaro and the Third Lula Administrations 234

ANDREA RIBEIRO HOFFMANN, p. 234-249

From Introduction (Birle, Zilla):

Domestic autocratic tendencies often lead to drastic changes in foreign policy, as Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann shows in Chapter 14 with the example of Brazilian foreign policy under President Jair Bolsonaro between 2019 and 2022. While Brazil has traditionally been a proponent of a rules-based world order and is involved in numerous multilateral institutions, Bolsonaro radically changed Brazil’s international orientation. His government withdrew from several Latin American regional organisations, bilateral relations with neighbouring countries governed by progressives suffered significant set-backs, and “international cultural Marxism” was identified as a threat to the country’s national sovereignty. The administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to active and constructive cooperation at the regional and global level from 2023, but the damage left by the ultra-right populist Bolsonaro government cannot be repaired overnight.

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