Alternative Analytical Axes of Brazilian Foreign Policy

Abstract

This article identifies the limitations of classical, sociopolitical, and interactive analytical axes for explaining the crisis of paradigms and the content of Brazilian foreign policy and to propose alternative perspectives to overcome these limitations. A constructivist axis is used to examine the co‐constitution of agent and structure and to identify the possibilities of change. A poststructuralist axis is used to show that Brazilian “Foreign Policy” reproduces practices of differentiation and is connected to the containment of challenges to identity. A postcolonial axis is used to show that Brazilian foreign policy can provide answers to the challenges of interaction with diversity through self‐reflection and culturally diverse criticism to inequality.

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