%0 Journal Article
%T Brazil¡¯s Generous Diplomacy: Friendly Dragon or Paper Tiger?
%A Robert Muggah
%A Eduarda Passarelli£¿Hamann
%J International Development Policy/Revue Internationale de Politique de D¨¦veloppement
%D 2012
%I Institut de Hautes ?tudes Internationales et du D¨¦veloppement
%R 10.4000/poldev.1009
%X Published by Palgrave MacmillanFeaturing a stable democracy and dizzying economic growth, Brazil is fast on the way to acquiring global power status. The country is investing in enhanced multilateral and bilateral relationships as a means of leveraging trade and reducing vulnerability abroad and on the domestic front. This chapter demonstrates how Brazil has increasingly aligned its foreign policy with a ¡®South¨CSouth Cooperation¡¯ (SSC) agenda as a means of achieving these parallel objectives. But while Brazil¡¯s trade activities have received attention, there has been comparatively less focus on the country¡¯s aid policy and practice.Moreover, there is surprisingly little discussion of how the country¡¯s foreign policy pillars ¨C trade and aid ¨C are explicitly linked. The chapter demonstrates how Brazil¡¯s emerging aid agenda is fundamentally informed by trade considerations. Over the past decade Brazil has positioned its foreign policy agenda in such a way as to re-shape the global terms of trade in its favour and decrease its dependency both internationally and domestically.Brazil¡¯s relatively modest development aid allocations are amplified by a wider effort to advance trade, foreign direct investment and technology transfer. Brazil seeks to expand to new markets for its products, services and investment, it anticipates that its South¨CSouth Development Cooperation (SSDC) stance will facilitate the extension of its influence in bilateral and multilateral arrangements, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Security Council.
%K democracy
%K official development assistance (ODA)
%K trade
%K emerging economies
%K policy coherence
%K free trade agreement (FTA)
%K global public policies
%K poverty
%K foreign policy
%K South-South cooperation
%K conditionalities
%K America Latin and Caribbean
%K Brazil
%K World Trade Organization (WTO)
%U http://poldev.revues.org/pdf/1009