Bolsonaro in Brazil

Doval, Gisela Pereyra

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“…Bolsonaro saw himself as a fixer of the country and promised to bring a new sense of order. He blamed the traditional elites for the current state of the nation (Pereyra Doval, 2021). Bolsonaro referred to the people using an 'us versus them' (people versus elite) construction, and questioned the elite that had damaged the country:…”

Section: The Populist Foreign Policy Of Jair Bolsonaromentioning

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Stereotyped images and role dissonance in the foreign policy of right-wing populist leaders: Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump

Wehner¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Populist leaders unfold anti-elite rhetoric to sustain the ‘in-group’ morale of the ‘people’ they represent. Populist projects contain an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ dimension constituted by the stereotyped images that serve to inform the role-selection process in foreign policy. When images shaping roles on the international stage are used against the ‘out-group’, they become stereotypes of other actors. Therefore, this article explores how anti-pluralist populist leaders such as Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump use stereotyped images, and how these images – which speak to intention, affective tags and the evaluation of options – shape the foreign policy role behaviour of the states in question. The article develops a framework at the interplay of images and roles to analyse how these two aspects are used by the leader in an oversimplified manner to delineate boundaries between self and other, and thus to identify the membership base of the populist project versus those who are seen as a threat to their populist foreign policy.

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Section: The Populist Foreign Policy Of Jair Bolsonaromentioning

confidence: 99%