Foreign policy and National Security in Contemporary Brazil: institutional and cultural
Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 32
Abstract
This paper discusses the institutional and cultural challenges that that hinder the development of a national security policy convergent with the foreign policy in Brazil. The research question is: how institutions and political culture in Brazil impede or hamper coordination between foreign policy and defense policy - and therefore national security? In the institutional dimension, we consider the hypothesis that the main challenges are: i) the current stage of democratic institutions in Brazil and ii) the institutional gap between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Defense (MD). In turn, in the cultural sphere the main challenge stems from the strong shared perception by both the government and the population that Brazil has no external enemies, which results in a certain neglect of the design and implementation of a sound policy of national security. The methodology used is the process-tracing of the historical development of MFA and MD, as well as documentary analysis and quantitative data on perception of the population provided by the World Value Survey 2014.
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Laura de Castro Quaglia
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