What is it about?
The article explains how developing countries like Brazil behave in key negotiations such as the ones on climate change and on peace and security. The work shows that Brazil does not expect to alter the existing parameters of the global order. Instead, it acts as a legalistic and pro status quo player, not aiming to promove drastic shifts.
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Why is it important?
In current times, developing powers like Brazil, China, and India, have more means to push forward their preferences and agendas in international forums. While this may arise new tensions as regards the definition of rules and norms, these countries may also push for more cooperation and dialogue in multiple topics. This trend is even more important if one considers that many of the contemporary challenges are coming from the core of the existing global order, as happens with the Trump's administration and the Brexit.
Perspectives
Sometimes neglected, the issue of how developing or emerging powers behave is crucial for us to understand the future of global governance. Writing that article was an opportunity to show that they can be cooperative actors, which questions many mainstream works on the realm of international relations. I hope that readers become interested on the topics, also looking for related arenas of multilateral governance and possible comparable cases.
Felipe Albuquerque
Universidade de Lisboa
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This page is a summary of: Developing Powers in Multilateral Regimes: Brazil’s Foreign Policy in the Climate Change and Peace and Security Regimes, International Negotiation, August 2018, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15718069-23031142.
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