Estudos Internacionais (Nov 2021)

Subnational activism and conflicts within Jair Bolsonaro’s government: an analysis of the Brazilian states’ actions in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda during 2019

  • Débora Figueiredo Mendonça Prado,
  • Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira ,
  • Ana Carolina Evangelista Mauad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2317-773X.2021v9n3p114-132
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3

Abstract

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The article analyzes the international engagement of Brazilian subnational governments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda during the first year of the Bolsonaro’s government with an emphasis on the role of states in supporting the environmental axis. We argue that subnational governments have been strongly active in defending this agenda, unlike the federal government, generating foreign policy tensions. Therefore, the research analyzes the performance of these actors in the scope of the Northeast and the Legal Amazon Consortia.

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