%0 Journal Article %T Brazil and the economic, political, and environmental multilateralism: the Lula years (2003-2010) %A Visentini %A Paulo G. Fagundes %A Silva %A Andr¨¦ Luiz Reis da %J Revista Brasileira de Pol¨ªtica Internacional %D 2010 %I Instituto Brasileiro de Rela??es Internacionais %R 10.1590/S0034-73292010000300004 %X this article discusses brazil's multilateral policy under luiz in¨¢cio lula da silva's administration, highlighting economic, political and environmental themes. the main argument is that brazil's multilateral relations during this government reached a new significance with the reinforcement of international coalitions and the articulation with the country's new development model. the country has been using multilateral forums as a way to achieve international projection and support for its development project, highlighting bargaining aspects, variable geometry coalitions and the strengthening of south-south cooperation %K multilateralism %K brazilian diplomacy %K brazil and international organizations. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-73292010000300004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en