Between Autonomy and Dependency: the Place of Agency in Brazilian Foreign Policy

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Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro,Letícia
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Lima,Maria Regina Soares de
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Brazilian Political Science Review
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-38212018000300201
Resumo: The article examines the construction of the concept of autonomy in Latin America and discusses to what extent it can be applied to contemporary Brazilian foreign policy. The article first examines classical definitions of the concept, and then looks at the ways in which it has been used to analyze Brazilian foreign policy for over half a century. We then reaffirm the importance of agency and how power relations vary from one thematic area to another. In doing so, the article advocates the concept's applicability for explaining certain behaviours, but rejects its use as a 'grand strategy'.