Para o bem e para o mal: a despolitização da política externa brasileira e a politização das tradições

  • Mesquita, Lucas Ribeiro
Publication date
August 2014
Publisher
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The article seeks to understand the political role of diplomatic traditions in the context of Brazilian foreign policy. Working with the hypothesis that the Brazilian diplomatic tradition is used throughout history in two distinct ways, varying according to the interests of groups. Firstly, when appropriated by those who make up the government, tradition serves as a resource for depoliticization of Brazilian foreign policy, serving as justification for policy choices. However, opposition groups resort to tradition and to the questioning of the performance of policies to politicize international choices of government serving as, in this sense, politicizing the tradition of political contestation mechanism. In conclusion, the observation supp...

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