Brazil: analysis of a rising soft power

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National interests and the impact of student mobility: the case of Canada and Brazil

“…Brazil's recent efforts on the international student front represent a somewhat opposite approach and it is in fact an ideal opportunity for Canada. As a rising power (Chatin 2016), Brazil has long seen the value in promoting international study abroad for its citizens, particularly at the graduate level. In good measure, this has been undertaken as a response to the relatively limited capacity of domestic institutions of higher learning, and a firm belief in the need to take full advantage of training and scientific research abroad to benefit the development of research and development activities at home.…”

Capacetes Azuis brasileiros no Haiti: instrumento de smart power para a política externa do Brasil?

“…Ainda de acordo com Chatin (2016), um país pacífico, conciliatório, multilateral, de tradição legalista e a sua dimensão socioeconômica tornaram o Brasil uma nação emergente que alcançou projeção internacional por meio do soft power. Chatin (2016) destaca que Valença e Carvalho (2014), por sua vez, salientam que a política externa do país tem sido majoritariamente marcada pela adoção de componentes não-materiais de poder e por estratégias de persuasão e construção de consenso.…”

Brazil, the United States and the Tehran Declaration

“…Besides Brazil's intentions to contribute towards stability, the country also wanted to display its influence as a crafty diplomatic negotiator in world affairs (Chatin 2016) because of its pursuit of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat and its elite's ambitions to play a role in major global issues (Jesus 2011;Muxagato 2010). Brazil's role 19 in nuclear disarmament initiatives has been an asset mainly because the country displays three strong means to achieving 15 The United States, Russia, France and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 16 In the words of the Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano (pers.…”

“…Yet, despite the success in convincing the Iranians to negotiate a deal concerning their nuclear program, Brazil faced some restrictions while executing the new guidelines of its foreign policy. The behavior of countries such as the United States (Chatin 2016) has given indications of discontent towards Brazil's engagement in areas normally assigned to that country. Our main argument, based on documentation 4 and other official sources, points to the fact that Brazil's maneuvers in the case studied here were restrained by the United States mainly because of a conflict of interests.…”