Development, Democracy, and Human Rights in Brazil Module # 7YYBS001
(Level 7, 20 credits)
Autumn Term 2015
Tutor: Anthony Pereira
Brazil Institute, Chesham Building, Room 6B
Tel. 7848 2146; email: [email protected]
Office Hours: Wednesday 14:00-17:00 or by appointment
Class Meetings: Thursday 14:00-16:00, Strand Building 3.40
Introduction
Brazil is one of the largest countries in the world, with a territory bigger than the
continental United States, a population greater than Russia's, and an economy smaller than
that of only five or six other countries, depending on how gross domestic product is measured.
It has also experienced enormous economic, political, and social change in its modern history,
including wrenching industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth; oscillation between
military and civilian rule; mass movements demanding a variety of civil, political, and economic
rights; and complicated and contested constitutional, legal, and political reforms. The
successor of President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva (2003-2010) of the Workers’ Party, Dilma
Rousseff (Brazil’s first female president) was narrowly re-elected last year and is hanging on to
office despite protests against her rule, an economic recession in the midst of cuts in the
Federal budget, and the investigation of a major corruption scheme inside the partially stateowned oil company Petrobras. President Rousseff has survived so far, in part, by outsourcing
her economic policy to the Minister of Finance, Joaquim Levy, and delegating the management
of Congress to her Vice-President, Michel Temer. In the process, President Rousseff has
become one of the weakest presidents in recent Brazilian history, heavily reliant on support in
Congress for allied parties, most crucially the PMDB (Partido do Movimento Democrático
Brasileiro, or Brazilian Democratic Movement Party).
The principal objective of this module is to introduce students to the government and
politics of Brazil. The topic is approached in a chronological fashion, taking the period from the
early 1960s to the present in Part I, and also thematically, by examining some key
contemporary public policy issues in Part II. Specific objectives include understanding
important features of Brazil's unusual political development, compared to the rest of Latin
America, the United States, and western Europe; appreciating the generally conservative
outcomes of most major political conflicts; examining the enduring tensions engendered by the
country's vast socioeconomic and regional inequalities; and analyzing the ongoing struggle to
democratise political decision-making, social relations, and economic life. Throughout the
module, the themes of economic development, democracy, and human rights will recur. The
search for these three elusive goals is a constant in Brazilian political life, and conflicting
analyses of how to more fully realize the three goals constitute the fault lines of Brazilian
politics.
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Educational aims of the course
By examining a series of texts on Brazilian politics, the course will enable students to
better understand the key historical moments that have contributed to the development of
Brazil’s state and society, as well as a selection of some of the most important
contemporary public policy debates. The specific aims of the course are to:
-introduce the students to a number of influential texts that interpret Brazil’s political
development from different theoretical perspectives
-illuminate the changes that occurred in certain key moments (such as the 1964 military
coup, and the end of military rule in 1985) and how those changes contributed to Brazil’s
political trajectory
-describe basic features of Brazil’s political institutions (the presidency, Congress,
judiciary, electoral system, and political parties)
-enable students to critically engage with conflicting evaluations of policy outcomes in
several key areas (macroeconomic policy, participatory budgeting, public security, race
relations, and the control of corruption)
-provide students with the concepts, empirical knowledge, and skills required for
critical analysis of Brazilian public policy debates.
Learning outcomes of the course
On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
-demonstrate a sound grasp of key moments in recent Brazilian political history
-understand how these moments shaped the development of Brazil’s political institutions
-critically assess and evaluate the politics of different contemporary public policies and
their outcomes
-demonstrate the ability to compare and contrast different interpretations of
contemporary Brazilian politics from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
Teaching arrangements
Teaching will consist of one weekly two-hour seminar held over a single semester. The
seminar will take place from 14:00 to 16:00 on Thursday in the Strand Building, room S3.40. In
most cases the seminar will involve a presentation by the tutor in the first hour, followed by a
variety of interactive formats, including student presentations and discussion, in the second
hour. Each student should be prepared to make a brief (10-12 minute) presentation at some
point during the term. Occasional one-hour tutorials on Thursday from 16:00-17:00 have also
been scheduled to complement the seminars. The tutor will inform you of the dates of these.
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Attendance
Attendance at all class meetings is mandatory, and, in accordance with college
regulation, students may be removed from the program if they do not attend regularly.
Attendance at sessions — whether seminars or tutorials — is monitored. Unavoidable
absence must always be explained to the member of staff concerned, preferably in advance.
Of course, you may at times be unwell or otherwise unable to meet a particular deadline for
good reason. You must inform the course tutor at once in all such cases. If you are absent
through illness for more than a week you must provide a medical certificate as soon as you
return. If you fail to attend three or more sessions in any course without valid excuse, you
will be contacted and your absence investigated.
Assessment
Assessment will consist of:
1) 1 essay (1,500 words) due on Monday the 2nd of November by 5:00 pm, weighted
25% of the module mark. The pass mark for this essay is 50. Answer one of the
questions below:
a) Brazilian political leaders have often prided themselves on their ability to negotiate
complicated bargains and thereby achieve relatively peaceful forms of change. Is this
self-image justified, in light of Brazil’s post-1964 political history?
b) Brazil’s authoritarian regime of 1964-1985 was a hybrid of military and civilian
elements. To what extent were its creation and endurance the result of the military’s
power, and to what extent were they the outcomes of the actions of civilians?
c) Some observers argue that Brazil’s regime transition of the mid-1980s returned the
country to formal democracy without changing the distribution of power underlying
the authoritarian regime or achieving substantive democratisation. Do you agree with
this proposition, and why or why not?
2) 1 essay (4,000 words) due on Monday the 11th of January by 5:00 pm, weighted 75%
of the module mark. The pass mark for this essay is 50. Answer one of the questions
below. In your answer, refer explicitly and in detail to at least one of the five policy
areas covered in the second part of the module.
a) Brazil’s post-1985 democracy is now older than the authoritarian regime it replaced.
How would you evaluate the quality of Brazilian democracy?
b) Choose one of the six policy areas covered in Part II of the module (macroeconomic
policy; social policy; public security and human rights; racial inequality; corruption; or
foreign policy). Analyse the constellation of interests that have produced this policy
outcome, indicating the most powerful organisations involved, and evaluate the extent
to which policy has changed since the transition to democracy in the mid-1980s. In this
policy area, has the promise of democratic change been realized in Brazil?
c) Choose one of the six policy areas covered in Part II of the module. Weigh up the
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effectiveness of current policies in this area, and make a recommendation as to which
aspects of policy should be maintained and/or changed, and why.
Course Structure and Reading List
(Required readings are listed below; recommended readings are listed in the following section.)
Week 1: Introduction (25 September)
How can we understand Brazilian political development?
Leonardo Avritzer, Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2002), chapter 2, pp. 36-54.
Bryan McCann, The Throes of Democracy: Brazil Since 1989 (London: Zed Books, 2008),
introduction, chapter 1, pp. 1-49.
Marcus André Melo and Carlos Pereira, Making Brazil Work: Checking the President in a
Multiparty System (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), chapter 1, pp. 1-22.
Alfred P. Montero, Brazil: Reversal of Fortune (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014), chap 1, pp. 1-19.
Michael Reid, Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power (New Haven: Yale University Press,
2014), chapter 13, pp. 263-281.
Part I BRAZIL’S POLITICAL HISTORY
Week 2: The authoritarian regime: repression and conservative modernization (2 October)
What were the causes of the 1964 military coup? How was the Brazilian military regime
different from others in the region?
Leslie Bethell and Celso Castro, “Politics in Brazil Under Military Rule, 1964-85” in Leslie Bethell,
ed. The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume IX, Brazil Since 1930 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 165-230.
Alfred Stepan, “The New Professionalism of Internal Warfare and Military Role Expansion” in
Abraham Lowenthal, ed., Armies and Politics in Latin America (New York: Holmes and Meier,
1976), pp. 244-260.
Guillermo O’Donnell, “Tensions in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State and the Question of
Democracy” in Guillermo O’Donnell, Counterpoints (South Bend: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1999) pp. 35-47.
Week 3: The authoritarian regime: liberalization and the transition to democracy (9 October)
What provoked the liberalization of the military regime in the early 1970s? What kind of
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transition to democracy did Brazil experience, and how did its mode of transition influence the
subsequent democracy?
Riordan Roett, Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999), chapter
4 (pp. 103-141).
Alfred Stepan, Rethinking Military Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988)
chapters3-5 (pp. 30-67).
Leonardo Avritzer, Democracy and the Public Sphere in Latin America (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2002), chapter 1, pp. 11-35.
Week 4: Democracy in the post-1985 period (16 October)
How securely has democracy been institutionalised since 1985, and how can one assess the
quality of Brazilian democracy? How secure is constitutionalism in the country?
Kurt Weyland, “The Growing Sustainability of Brazil’s Low-Quality Democracy” in Frances
Hagopian and Scott Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America:
Advances and Setbacks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 90-120.
Alfred Montero, Brazil: Reversal of Fortune, chapter 2, pp. 20-46.
Matthew Taylor, Judging Policy: Courts and Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2009), chapters 2 and 4 (pp. 13-47, 72-89).
Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 166-189.
PART II CONTEMPORARY POLICY DEBATES
Week 5: Macroeconomic policy – the pursuit of economic development (23 October)
Is Brazil a developmental success, and if so why? What are Brazil’s contemporary challenges in
the area of macroeconomic policy?
Aline Diniz Amaral, Peter Kingstone, and Jonathan Krieckhaus, “The Limits of Economic Reform
in Brazil” in Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds. Democratic Brazil Revisited (University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2008), pp. 137-160.
Michael Reid, Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power, chapter 11 and 14, pp. 214-236 and
pp. 282-291.
Alfred P. Montero, Brazil: Reversal of Fortune, chapter 5, pp. 101-128.
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Reading Week (no class meeting) (30 October)
First assessed essay due: Monday 2 November 2015 by 5:00 pm
Week 6: Social Policy, Bolsa Família, Poverty and Inequality (6 November)
What has been the role of social policy in reducing various forms of economic inequality in the
country since 1995? How successful has Bolsa Família been?
Marcelo Neri, “Income Policies, Income Distribution, and the Distribution of Opportunities in
Brazil” in Lael Brainard and Leonardo Martínez-Diaz, eds. Brazil as an Economic
Superpower? (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009), pp. 221-269.
Hall, Anthony (2013) “Political dimensions of social protection in Brazil” in James Midgley
and David Piachaud, eds. Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social Change: Goals,
Issues and Trajectories in China, India, Brazil and South Africa. Cheltenham, UK: Edward
Elgar, pp. 166-183.
Hunter, Wendy and Natasha Borges Sugiyama (2013) Assessing the Bolsa Família: Successes,
Shortcomings, and Unknowns. London: Paper presented at the conference “Democratic
Brazil Emergent”, University of Oxford and the Brazil Institute, King’s College London, 22
February, Revised 13 July 2013.
Lavinas, Lena (2013) “21st Century Welfare” in New Left Review, 84, November-December,
pp. 5-40.
Week 7: Public security and human rights (13 November)
To what extent is violence in Brazilian cities the result of the absence of the state? How might
levels of violence in urban Brazil be diminished?
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, “Political Transition and the (Un)Rule of Law in the Republic” in I.
Sachs, J. Wilheim, and P. S. Pinheiro, eds. Brazil: A Century of Change, pp. 174-215.
Enrique Desmond Arias, “The Dynamics of Criminal Governance: Networks and Social Order in
Rio de Janeiro” in Journal of Latin American Studies, Volume 38, Number 2, May (2006), pp.
293-325.
Bryan McCann, The Throes of Democracy: Brazil Since 1989 (London: Zed Books, 2008),
introduction, chapter 2, pp. 50-72.
Week 8: Racial inequality and race relations (20 November)
Are Brazil’s race relations significantly different from those in elsewhere? What are some of
the barriers to greater racial equality in contemporary Brazil?
Michael Hanchard, “Black Cinderella?” in Michael Hanchard (ed.) Racial Politics in
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Contemporary Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999) pp. 59-81.
Peter Fry “Politics, Nationality, and the Meanings of `Race’ in Brazil” in Daedalus, Spring 2000,
pp. 83-118.
Ollie Johnson, “Afro-Brazilian Politics: White Supremacy, Black Struggle, and Affirmative
Action” in Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds. Democratic Brazil Revisited (Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), pp. 209-230.
Jan Hoffman French, Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), preface, introduction, conclusion, pp. xixvi, 1-16, 174-185.
Week 9: Corruption (27 November)
What are the sources of corruption in Brazil? How effective have recent attempts to reduce
corruption been?
Timothy Power and Matthew Taylor, Corruption and Democracy in Brazil: The Struggle for
Accountability (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), chapters 1, 8, and 10,
pp. 1-28, 184-217, 250-275.
Marcus André Melo and Carlos Pereira, Making Brazil Work: Checking the President in a
Multiparty System, chapter 6, pp. 119-156.
Week 10 Foreign Policy (4 December)
To what extent have Brazilian ambitions to be globally influential been realized? What is the
connection between Brazil’s attempts to engage in regional leadership in South and Latin
America, and its diplomatic efforts beyond the region?
Celso Lafer, “Brazil and the World” in Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sergio
Pinheiro, eds. Brazil: A Century of Change, pp. 101-119.
Andrés Malamud “A Leader without Followers? The Growing Divergence Between the
Regional and Global Performance of Brazilian Foreign Policy” in Latin American Politics and
Society, Volume 53, Number 3, 2011, pp. 1-24.
Riordan Roett, The New Brazil (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2010), chapter
8, pp. 127-148.
Michael Reid, Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power, chapter 12, pp. 239-262.
Second assessed essay due: 11 January 2016 by 5:00 pm
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Recommended Readings
Week 1: Introduction
Marshall Eakin, Brazil: The Once and Future Country (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998).
Boris Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Maria D’Alva Kinzo and James Dunkerley, eds., Brazil Since 1985: Economy, Polity and Society
(London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2003).
Riordan Roett, The New Brazil (Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2010).
Leslie Bethell, ed., Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822-1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989).
Mauricio Font, Transforming Brazil (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
Mauricio Font and Laura Randall, eds. The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda (Lanham:
Lexington Books, 2011).
Gilberto Freyre, The Masters and the Slaves (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
Steven Topik, “The Hollow State: The Effect of the World Market on State Building in Brazil in
the Nineteenth Century” in James Dunkerley, ed., Studies in the Formation of the Nation State
in Latin America (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2002).
Charles Tilly, “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime” in Peter Evans, Dietrich
Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds. Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985), pp. 169-187.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1985), introduction and chapter 4,
pp. 1-7, 47-65.
Sanders, E. (2008) “Historical Institutionalism” in Rhodes, R. Binder, S. and Rockman, B. eds.
The Oxford Handbook of Political Institutions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 39-55.
Week 2: The authoritarian regime: repression, and conservative modernization
Brian Loveman, “State Terrorism, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law: Explaining the Use of
Courts Under Military Dictatorships” in A Contra Corriente, Volume 4, Number 2, Winter
(2007), pp. 221-238.
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, State and Opposition in Military Brazil (Austin: University of
Texas Press, 1985).
Anthony Pereira, Political (In)justice (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).
Alfred Stepan, The Military in Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992).
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Week 3: The authoritarian regime: liberalization and the transition to democracy
Silvio R. Duncan Baretta and John Markoff, “Brazil’s Abertura: Transition From What to What?”
in James Malloy and Mitchell Seligson, eds., Authoritarians and Democrats: Regime Transition
in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987), pp. 43-66.
Margaret Keck, The Workers’ Party and Democratisation in Brazil (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995).
Thomas Skidmore, The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil 1964-85 (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1988).
Alfred Stepan, ed., Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1977).
Alfred Stepan, ed., Democratizing Brazil (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Week 4: Democracy in the post-1985 period
Leslie Bethell and Jairo Nicolau, “Politics in Brazil, 1985-2002” in Leslie Bethell, ed. The
Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume IX, Brazil Since 1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008), pp. 231-279.
Frances Hagopian, “The Compromised Consolidation: The Political Class in the Brazilian
Transition” in Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O’Donnell, and J. Samuel Valenzuela, eds., Issues in
Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective
(South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), pp. 243-293.
James Holston, Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, Democratic Brazil (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2000).
Joseph Love and Werner Baer, eds., Brazil Under Lula: Economy, Politics, and Society under the
Worker-President (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009).
Scott Mainwaring, Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of
Brazil (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
Week 5: Macroeconomic policy
Werner Baer, The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2013,
seventh edition).
Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failures of the Washington
Consensus (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2009).
Peter Evans, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1995).
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Week 6: Social policy, Bolsa Família, inequality and poverty
Ricardo Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco, and Rosana Mendonça, “Markets, the
State, and the Dynamics of Inequality in Brazil” in Luis López-Calva and Nora Lustig, eds.,
Declining Inequality in Latin America: A Decade of Progress? (New York and Washington DC:
UNDP and Brookings University Press, 2010), pp. 134-174.
Chaui, Marilena (2013) “On Social Classes: A New Brazilian Working Class” in Poverty in
Focus, Number 26, October, pp. 21-24.
Rebecca Abers, Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil (Boulder: Lynne
Rienner, 2000).
William Nylen, “Testing the Empowerment Thesis: The Participatory Budget in Belo Horizonte
and Betim, Brazil” in Comparative Politics, Volume 34, 2002, pp. 127-145.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, ed., Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic
Consensus (New York: Verso, 2005).
Alfred P. Montero, Brazil: Reversal of Fortune, chapter 6, pp. 129-151.
Bastagli, Francesca and Fabio Veras Soares (2013) “The future of social protection in Brazil”
in James Midgley and David Piachaud, eds. Social Protection, Economic Growth and Social
Change: Goals, Issues and Trajectories in China, India, Brazil and South Africa. Cheltenham,
UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 184-198.
Leonardo Avritzer, Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2009), chapter 1, 5, and 8 pp. 1-17, 83-115, 163-174.
Marcus Melo, “Democratizing Budgetary Decisions and Execution in Brazil: More Participation
or Redesign of Formal Institutions?” in Andrew Selee and Enrique Peruzzotti, eds. Participatory
Innovation and Representative Democracy in Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2009), pp. 17-39.
Brian Wampler, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and
Accountability (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), chapter 1, pp.
1-44.
Week 7: Public security and human rights
Cláudio C. Beato Filho, Crime, Police, and Urban Space. (Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies
Discussion Paper CBS 65-2005).
Enrique Desmond Arias, Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 2006).
Macaulay, Fiona, Problems of Police Oversight in Brazil. (Oxford: Centre for Brazilian Studies
Discussion Paper CBS 33-2002).
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Mercedes Hinton, The State on the Streets: Police and Politics in Argentina and Brazil (Boulder:
Lynne Rienner, 2006).
Anthony Pereira, “Public Security, Private Interests, and Police Reform in Brazil” in Peter
Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds. Democratic Brazil Revisited (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2008), pp. 185-208.
O’Donnell, Guillermo, “On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin
American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries” in World Development,
Volume 21, August 1993, pp. 1355-1369.
Graham Denyer Willis, “Antagonistic Authorities and the Civil Police in São Paulo, Brazil” in
Latin American Research Review, Volume 49, Number 1, 2014, pp. 3-22.
Week 8: Racial inequality and race relations
John French, “Translation, Diasporic Dialogue, and the Errors of Pierre Bordieu and Löic
Wacquant” in Nepantla: Views From the South, Volume 4, Number 2, 2002, pp. 97-140.
Michael Hanchard (ed.) Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press,
1999).
Alcida Rita Ramos, Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1998).
Edward Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2006).
Week 9: Corruption
Alberto Ades and Rafael Di Tella (2000) “The New Economics of Corruption: A Survey and
Some New Results” in Joseph A. Tulchin and Ralph Espach, eds., Combating Corruption in
Latin America (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University
Press), pp. 15-52.
Bo Rothstein (2011) The Quality of Government (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Robert Klitgaard, Ronald Maclean-Abaroa, and H. Lindsey Parris (2000), Corrupt Cities: A
Practical Guide to Cure and Prevention (Oakland and Washington D.C.: Institute for
Contemporary Studies/World Bank Institute), chapters 1-4, 6, pp. 1-66, 95-117.
Joseph Tulchin and Ralph Espach, eds. Combatting Corruption in Latin America (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
Stephen Morris and Charles Blake, eds. Corruption and Politics in Latin America (Boulder:
Lynne Rienner, 2010).
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Week 10: Foreign policy
Andrew Hurrell, “Emerging Powers, North-South Relations, and Global Climate Politics” in
International Affairs, 3, 88, 2012.
Amrita Narlikar, “New Powers in the Club: The Challenges of Global Trade Governance” in
International Affairs. v. 86, n. 3, p. 717-728, 2010.
Matias Spektor, “One Foot in the Region; Eyes on the Global Prize” in Americas Quarterly,
Volume 5, 2011.
Tullo Vigevani and Gabriel Cepaluni, Brazilian Foreign Policy in Changing Times (Lanham:
Lexington Books, 2009).
See also journals such as: Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional; Política Externa;
Diplomacia, Estratégia, Política; and Interesse Nacional.
And the FUNAG web site:
http://funag.gov.br/loja/index.php?route=product/category&path=68
Books
Students unfamiliar with Brazilian history are encouraged to buy Boris Fausto’s A Concise
History of Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Students might also want to buy a book
that reviews various aspects of Brazilian politics, such as Alfred Montero’s Reversal of
Fortune, on the reading list, or Michael Reid’s Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power.
Internet Resources
Brazil has tens of millions of Internet users and therefore offers a wide variety of websites to
students of the country’s government and politics. All of the major newspapers and
newsmagazines are online, though some require registration. A good place to start for
internet resources is the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) at the
University of Texas at Austin. Their gateway to Brazilian cyberspace is located at
http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/brazil/. Some useful news sources for politics are the online
versions of the newspapers Folha de São Paulo, Estado de São Paulo, O Globo and Valor
Econômico; the sites of the newsweeklies Veja, IstoÉ, and Época; and the site of TV Globo.
To keep an eye on very up-to-the-moment developments, it is helpful to bookmark some of
the major news aggregators such as http://news.google.com.br (then click on “Brasil”), the
Universo Online site at http://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/, or the G1 site operated by the
Globo network at http://g1.globo.com (then click on “Política”). For those who do not read
Portuguese, try the online translators.
Parallel Activities at the Brazil Institute
During the term the Brazil Institute will host several events that you are encouraged to
participate in. These include the Brazil Institute seminar series. You can find details about
this on our website.
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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/worldwide/initiatives/global/brazilinstitute/NewsandEven
ts/events.aspx
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