Article (Journal/Review)
Regionalism as an instrument: assessing Brazil's relations with its neighbourhood
Fecha
2015-07-03Registro en:
1360-0826
10.1080/13600826.2015.1039500
000356288400008
Theodoro Luciano, Bruno/0000-0002-1276-6076
Autor
Lazarou, Elena
Luciano, Bruno Theodoro
Institución
Resumen
This article aims to understand the basic characteristics of regionalism in Brazilian foreign policy. For this purpose, it goes over the recent history of Brazilian involvement in regional trade and security arrangements in South America. It also examines the manner in which economic uncertainties, brought about by the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, affected Brazilian foreign policy towards its region. Based on this historical analysis, it defines five key aspects that characterise Brazilian behaviour in the region, namely: post-democratisation regionalism; presidential regionalism; reactive regionalism; concentric/multilevel regionalism; and instrumental regionalism.