Dilemmas Of Brazilian Grand Strategy

Author : Hal Brands
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Page : 88 pages
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Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781300039150

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This is a review of Brazilian grand strategy under President Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva. During Lula's nearly 8 years in office, he has pursued a multi-tiered grand strategy aimed at hastening the transition from unipolarity to a multipolar order in which international rules, norms, and institutions are more favorable to Brazilian interests. Lula has done so by emphasizing three diplomatic strategies: soft-balancing, coalition-building, and seeking to position Brazil as the leader of a more united South America. This strategy has successfully raised Brazil's profile and increased its diplomatic flexibility, but it has also exposed the country to four potent strategic dilemmas that could complicate or undermine its ascent. These touch on issues ranging from anemic macroeconomic performance to rising tensions in Brazil's relationship with the USA. The efficacy of Brazilian grand strategy?and its implications?will be contingent on how Lula's successors address these dilemmas.

Author : Hal Brands
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584874627

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First, issues like poor infrastructure, rampant crime, and excessive tax and regulation of the economy may impede Brazil from attaining strong economic growth and social cohesion necessary to sustain such an ambitious strategic project. Second, in dealing with South America, the Brazilian political class has not reconciled its desire for regional leadership with its unwillingness to share power or economic benefits with its neighbors. As a result, many of these countries perceive Brazil's diplomacy to be domineering and its trade policies to be narrowly self-interested, and they have thus refused to support Lula's bid for regional preeminence. Third, at the global level, the long-term cohesion and effectiveness of Lula's various diplomatic partnerships is open to question. Fourth, while Lula has maintained good relations with Washington, his grand strategy unavoidably entails a growing risk of conflict issues like Iran, trade policy, and the U.S.

Author : U.s. Army War College
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1499733070

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Dilemmas of Brazilian Grand Strategy by U.s. Army War College Pdf

This book analyzes Brazilian grand strategy under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. During Lula's nearly 8 years in office, he has pursued a multipronged grand strategy aimed at hastening the transition from unipolarity and Western economic hegemony to a multipolar order in which international rules, norms, and institutions are more favorable to Brazilian interests. Lula has done so by emphasizing three diplomatic strategies: soft balancing against the United States, building coalitions to magnify Brazilian negotiating power, and seeking to position Brazil as the leader of a more united South America. This strategy has successfully raised Brazil's profile and increased its diplomatic flexibility, but it has also exposed the country to four potent strategic dilemmas that could complicate or undermine its ascent. First, issues like poor infrastructure, rampant crime, and excessive taxation and regulation of the economy may impede Brazil from attaining the strong economic growth and social cohesion necessary to sustain such an ambitious strategic project. Second, in dealing with South America, the Brazilian political class has not reconciled its desire for regional leadership with its unwillingness to share power or economic benefits with its neighbors. As a result, many of these countries perceive Brazil's diplomacy to be domineering and its trade policies to be narrowly self-interested, and they have thus refused to support Lula's bid for regional preeminence. Third, at the global level, the long-term cohesion and effectiveness of Lula's various diplomatic partnerships is open to question. Fourth, while Lula has maintained good relations with Washington, his grand strategy unavoidably entails a growing risk of conflict over issues like Iran, trade policy, and the U.S. diplomatic and military role in Latin America. Looking ahead, the efficacy of Brazilian grand strategy- and its consequences for U.S. interests-will be contingent on how Lula's successors address these dilemmas.

Author : Thierry Balzacq,Peter Dombrowski,Simon Reich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192577542

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Comparative Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq,Peter Dombrowski,Simon Reich Pdf

This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework. The volume responds to three key problems common to both academia and policymaking. First, the literature on the concept of grand strategy generally focuses on the United States, offering no framework for comparative analysis. Indeed, many proponents of US grand strategy suggest that the concept can only be applied, at most, to a very few great powers such as China and Russia. Second, characteristically it remains prescriptive rather than explanatory, ignoring the central conundrum of why differing countries respond in contrasting ways to similar pressures. Third, it often understates the significance of domestic politics and policymaking in the formulation of grand strategies - emphasizing mainly systemic pressures. This book addresses these problems. It seeks to analyze and explain grand strategies through the intersection of domestic and international politics in ten countries grouped distinctively as great powers (The G5), regional powers (Brazil and India) and pivotal powers hostile to each other who are able to destabilize the global system (Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia). The book thus employs a comparative framework that describes and explains why and how domestic actors and mechanisms, coupled with external pressures, create specific national strategies. Overall, the book aims to fashion a valid, cross-contextual framework for an emerging research program on grand strategic analysis.

Author : Thierry Balzacq,Peter Dombrowski,Simon Reich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198840848

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Comparative Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq,Peter Dombrowski,Simon Reich Pdf

"The study of grand strategy has historically been confined to a few great powers--preponderantly, the United States, China, and Russia. In contrast, this volume introduces readers to the novel field of “comparative grand strategy.” Its co-editors offer a framework that expands the analysis beyond a traditional rationalist approach to incorporate significant cultural factors that influence strategists as they prioritize threats and opportunities in the global system. This framework then combines these factors with domestic political influences often understated or overlooked in the international relations literature. It considers both how grand strategy is actually formulated and the varied instruments used to implement it. Applying this framework, the volume's remaining contributors then examine how grand strategy is conceived, formulated, and implemented by ten states. These consist of the United Nations G5 members and five other states “pivotal” to global or regional economic development and security. This group is composed of Brazil and India--two regional powers operating in very different security environments--and Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, who confront each other in a truly existential conflict. Departing from a state-based analysis, an eleventh case study examines the European Union--an organization that lacks many of the trappings of a conventional state but which is able to call upon more resources than most. The volume's concluding chapter points to both the theoretical and empirical areas of convergence and divergence highlighted by these chapters, and the prospective questions for future analysis in the emergent field of comparative grand strategy" (ed.).

Author : Zachary A. Selden
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472130009

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Alignment, Alliance, and American Grand Strategy by Zachary A. Selden Pdf

Joining the debates about preserving US military power abroad, Selden recommends encouraging security alliances

Author : C. Stolte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137499578

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Brazil’s Africa Strategy by C. Stolte Pdf

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.

Author : Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198840299

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The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy by Thierry Balzacq,Ronald R. Krebs Pdf

A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West; six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject; the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture; the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action; political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices; the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative to alternatives; and the future of grand strategy, in light of challenges ranging from political polarization to technological change to aging populations. The result is a field-defining, interdisciplinary, and comparative text that will be a key resource for years to come.

Author : T. V. Paul,Deborah Welch Larson,William C. Wohlforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107059276

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Status in World Politics by T. V. Paul,Deborah Welch Larson,William C. Wohlforth Pdf

A systematic study of why rising powers seek greater status in world politics and when dominant powers recognize their claims.

Author : Göktuğ Sönmez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527547520

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A Neoclassical Realist Approach to Turkey under JDP Rule by Göktuğ Sönmez Pdf

This book addresses the shift in Turkish foreign policy in the post-Cold War era from a neoclassical realist point of view. In its analysis of Turkey’s pursuit of ‘an activist grand strategy’, it focuses on the interplay between international and domestic factors. It puts forth its argument through analysis of Turkey’s bilateral relations with Iran, Israel and the European Union. It offers comprehensive examinations of international relations theory and neoclassical realism (NCR). The book not only makes sense of Turkish foreign policy under the JDP rule, but also provides a comprehensive analysis of NCR’s explanatory power. It will primarily appeal to scholars on Turkey, international relations theory, realism, and Middle Eastern politics and students studying these areas, as well as think-tankers, journalists and researchers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : National security
ISBN : UCBK:C116582890

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Strategic Forum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Håkan Edström,Jacob Westberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000204667

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Military Strategy of Middle Powers by Håkan Edström,Jacob Westberg Pdf

Military Strategy of Middle Powers explores to what degree twenty-first-century middle powers adjust their military strategies due to changes in the international order, such as the decline in US power. The overarching objective of the book is to explain continuity and change in the strategies of a group of middle powers during the twenty-first century. These strategies are described, compared, and explained through the lens of Realism. In order to find potential explanations for change or continuity within the cases, as well as for similarities and differences between the cases, the strategies of 11 ‘middle’ powers are analysed (Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, India, Japan, and South Korea). This group of countries are considered similar in several important aspects, primarily regarding relative power capacity. When searching for potential explanations for different strategic behaviours among the middle powers, their unique regional characteristics are a key focus and, consequently, the impact of the structure and polarity, as well as the patterns of amity and enmity, of the regional context are analysed. The empirical investigation is focused on security strategies used since the terrorist attacks 9/11 2001, which was one of the first major challenges to US hegemony. This book will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, foreign policy, and International Relations in general.

Author : Octavio Amorim Neto
Publisher : Editora FGV
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786556522005

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New studies on civil-military relations and defense policy in Brazil by Octavio Amorim Neto Pdf

"After one of the longest military regimes in Latin America's history, Brazil transitioned to democracy in 1985. It was inevitable that, from then on, the political power of the military would decline. However, the extent to which the country's armed forces would eschew politics was never clear, given the vast role it had always played in domestic affairs since the onset of the republic in 1889."

Author : Oliver Stuenkel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317656135

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India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum (IBSA) by Oliver Stuenkel Pdf

The establishment of the IBSA as one of the principal platforms of South-South cooperation is one of the most notable developments in international politics during the first decade of the twenty-first century. While the concept is now frequently referred to in discussions about the Global South, there has not yet been a comprehensive and scholarly analysis of the history of the IBSA grouping and its impact on global order. This book: Offers a definitive reference history of the IBSA grouping (India, Brazil and South Africa) – a comprehensive, fact-focused narrative and analytical account from its inception as an ad hoc meeting in 2003 to the political grouping it is today. Situates the IBSA grouping in the wider context of South-South cooperation and the global shift of power away from the United States and Europe towards powers such as Brazil, India and South Africa. Provides an outlook and critically assesses what the IBSA grouping means for global order in the twenty-first century. Offering the first full-length and detailed treatment of the IBSA, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of International organizations, international relations and the global south.

Author : Kornegay, Francis A.,Bohler-Muller, Narnia
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798304030

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Laying the BRICS of a New Global Order by Kornegay, Francis A.,Bohler-Muller, Narnia Pdf

The contributions in this compilation on the emergence of a new global order through BRICS serve to illustrate the complexities inherent in the creation of such a coalition - alternatively referred to as a 'grouping', 'association' or 'forum' - with each country differently situated geo-politically as well as ideologically and culturally, and in some instances even in conflict with one another in matters of regional peace and security. The fact that there are important commonalities of converging interests, amongst others, the status of emerging economic powers and the furtherance of South-South cooperation as well as reforming global governance, cannot and should not hide complexities and contradictions. These are clearly apparent both within and between the BRICS countries. These diversities are also clear from the varied perspectives of the chapter authors in this compilation, which is why we have assembled this collection relatively loosely as a means of expressing our intellectual and analytic convergences and divergences within and across BRICS. Each chapter contributor writes from a different discipline, country and regional perspective, and it is this diversity that enriches the debate and conversation. As such, there remains enormous room for debate on the subject matter of this book and the diverse contributions open up the parameters of the debate even further. The aim is to ensure that scholars, commentators and practitioners continue to engage critically with theory and practice related to global multilateralism, and BRICS in particular.