Dawisson Belém Lopes

TL;DR: O artigo busca examinar, desde a realizacao da primeira eleicao direta para a Presidencia da Republica apos a redemocratizacão (1989) ate o ultimo ano do segundo termo presidencial de Lula da Silva (2010), a progressiva politizacião da Politica Externa Brasileira (PEB), sob a egide das instituicoes democraticas no plano domestico e a renovada influencia jogada por atores e

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the process of institution-building in Brazil, with an emphasis on the diplomatic corporation and the transformations it has undergone over the last three decades, and provide answers to two questions prompted by the latest reforms of Brazilian foreign service during Lula da Silva's presidency: How exactly might these institutional changes generate any impact over the Brazilian diplomatic corporation cohesion at large? How could bureaucratic insulation be undermined as an unexpected outcome of this process?

TL;DR: For some time, foreign policy as an expression was perfectly interchangeable with diplomacy, given the degree of leverage enjoyed by diplomatic corps in Brazil's political system as discussed by the authors. But there ha...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the organizational mechanisms and structures adopted by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) to promote the coordination of domestic government actors for implementing the guidelines of the IBSA Forum (India, Brazil, and South Africa), created in 2003.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assume that global intergovernmental organizations (GIGOs) function as enablers of interstate liberal politics by way of their multilateral institutional frame-works, and they adapt the classical concept of "polyarchy", coined in the early 1950s by Robert A. Dahl.