Brazil's Foreign Policy Ambitions And Global Geopolitics - Analysis - Eurasia Review - 0 views
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Brazil’s Foreign Policy Ambitions And Global Geopolitics – Analysis
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Brazil has been unable to acquire the decisive status it has long desired due to its failure to complement diplomacy with a commanding lead in its military power.
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To gain the military status it desires, Brazil must not only increase investments in an expanded domestic infrastructure, but also must decide to strengthen its military capabilities and improve its cooperation with the United States as well as with the European Union.
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“Brazil’s approach to its emerging role in world politics is very much based on the efficacy of multilateral institutional power,”
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Due to this mixture of diplomatic and economic moves, Brazil has become a champion of the developing world, and has been afforded a powerful, as well as a continuing voice in multilateral organizations.
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Similarly, Brazil’s peacekeeping efforts have been for the most part impressive, but not entirely without controversy.
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As Professor Amado Cervo at the National University of Brasília put it, “Brazilian diplomacy has not been successful in its attempt to join the exclusive club of political and military power, which remains firmly closed.”