Foreign Policy’s Role in Promoting Development: the Brazilian and Turkish Cases

Abstract

Foreign policy's role in promoting a country's development is a matter of great importance for understanding its national trajectory, especially in the case of an emerging country. This article aims to analyse lines of action of foreign policy that help emerging countries' development. In order to do so, it has as its main hypothesis that six lines of action work together towards that goal: (a) trade promotion; (b) investment policy; (c) economic, financial, and commercial negotiations; (d) resource exploration rights; (e) international co-operation; and (f) international projection. To verify their applicability, it analyses the cases of two emerging countries, Brazil and Turkey.

Towards Development‐Oriented Foreign Policy in Latin America: The Cases of Ecuador and Chile

“…Yet the mechanism by which Latin American states have been able to successfully incorporate their development agendas into their foreign policy remains largely unaccounted for. Spohr and da Silva (2017) have argued that foreign policy which successfully implements development strategies has the task of creating the necessary international environment in which these can be promoted. In the economic field, foreign policy will be concerned with securing resources through trade, investment policies and economic diplomacy (Spohr and da Silva, 2017).…”

“…Spohr and da Silva (2017) have argued that foreign policy which successfully implements development strategies has the task of creating the necessary international environment in which these can be promoted. In the economic field, foreign policy will be concerned with securing resources through trade, investment policies and economic diplomacy (Spohr and da Silva, 2017). In the political field, foreign policy is focused primarily on consolidating policy autonomy, transnational cooperation and international projection.…”

“…In the political field, foreign policy is focused primarily on consolidating policy autonomy, transnational cooperation and international projection. These ‘help create a positive environment for the other lines of action to succeed’ (Spohr and da Silva, 2017: 159).…”

“…It has, however, been predominantly described as a power relation of the 'West' over the 'Global South' (Robertson, 2005). Little has been written on how, for instance, the latter group successfully incorporates development strategies into foreign policy (Spohr and da Silva, 2017). The lack of research on the postcolonial world has generated multiple misinterpretations, as there is a tendency to extrapolate explanations from the developed world (Jayasuriya, 2005).…”

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“…Reflection on Brazilian foreign policy has been advancing toward recognition of its status as a public policy, as argued by Milani and Pinheiro (2013), due to its domestic distributional effects, especially in terms of national development, as presented by Spohr and Silva (2017 and a thorough study on the legislative instruments is necessary to provide understanding on the behavioral pattern of the legislative on the subject.…”