“…Foreign policy analysis is used as the main theoretical‐analytical tool. Foreign policy analysis, a subarea of both international relations and political science, explains ‘factors that influence foreign policy decision making and foreign policy decision makers’ (Hudson, : 2), by taking into account, although not exclusively (Salomón & Pinheiro, ), an analysis of external and internal drivers to decision‐making (Hermann, 1990, cited in Vigevani & Cepaluni, ; Milner, ; Putnam, ). Foreign policy in Brazil is understood to be an increasingly contested field in which various actors mobilise to influence decision‐making, thus downplaying the traditional role played by the diplomatic bureaucracy in the country's foreign policy (Pinheiro & Milani, ).…”