Política externa brasileira no início do século XXI : a inserção internacional do país como potência emergente e o dilema de graduação

Abstract

This paper seeks to point out how Brazilian foreign policy turned to the global South axis during the beginning of the 21st century and used multilateral strategic mechanisms and institutionalization processes to increase its role in the international system. The description has as its central argument that Brazil's international insertion, with a more significant and autonomous performance, occurred during the beginning of the 21st century and was mainly due to its behavior as an emerging power, explicit in the foreign policy initiatives of the period in question, with a focus on Brazilian performance in the mechanisms of integration and cooperation with the Global South. In addition, the definitions of emerging power and Graduation Dilemma are based on a conceptual framework to facilitate the analysis of Brazilian behavior and performance during the period in question and to verify that emerging powers generally use mechanisms of regional integration and cooperation, as well as how they are initiators of these mechanisms because they have relative power in the region