Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (Jan 2010)

Never before seen in Brazil: Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's grand diplomacy

  • Paulo Roberto de Almeida

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-73292010000200009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 2
pp. 160 – 177

Abstract

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Critical assessment of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's diplomacy, which departed from the previous patterns of the Brazilian Foreign Service, to align itself with the political conceptions of the Workers' Party. This diplomacy has neither consolidated the position of Brazil as a regional leader, nor attained its declared goal of inserting Brazil into the United Nations Security Council, although it has reinforced Brazil's image in the international scenarios; but this was achieved much more through the personal activism of the President himself, than through normal diplomatic work.

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