Brazil's Africa Strategy: Role Conception and the Drive for International Status

ISBN-13: 9781137499561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 220 str.

Christina Stolte

Opis

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: A South American Power making Inroads into Africa 2. Great Powers and the Drive for Status in International Relations 3. Brazil in the World: Role-Conception, Drive for Status and Status-Seeking Strategies of a Power on the Rise 4. Brazil in Africa: Extra-Regional Engagement as Springboard to Great Power Status 5. Why Africa? Motives for Brazil's Africa Engagement 6. Conclusion: Brazil's Africa Engagement as Status-Seeking Policy 7. Literature

O autorze

Christina Stolte is a Research Fellow at the German Institute or Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and a Visiting Researcher at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI). Christina is a political scientist with a specialization in Latin American Studies.