Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
This article presents a preliminary analysis of the teaching of International Relations Theory (IRT) and the use of theory in Brazilian academic research. We evaluate the teaching of IRT by analyzing courses' curricula and syllabi. Our analysis of the use of IRT in Brazilian research is based on Doctoral dissertations, CNPq-funded technical reports and papers published in Brazilian journals.
Topic:
International Relations, International Relations Theory, Academia, and Knowledge Production
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
This article proposes Amazonia as a site to think world politics. The Amazon is invisible in the study International Relations (IR), yet its experiences are deeply global. I present the international dynamics at play in Amazonia at different historical moments to posit that this periphery has contributed to forging the political-economy of what is refer to as the core. The Amazon's absence from the study of IR speaks about the larger inequality in processes of knowledge production. Serious engagements with Amazonia are one way to invite a plurality of worlds in the production of theories, disrupting global divisions of labor in knowledge production ally.
Topic:
International Relations, Indigenous, and Knowledge Production
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
This paper aims to discuss the democracy gap in the implementation process of decisions of the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System in Brazil and possible measures to increase its transparency and accountability. Although the selection of the implementation measure is a sensible political choice that impacts a wide spectrum of different interest groups in diverse manners, government shall give publicity and transparency to the selecting process, making possible for interest groups and agents to present their arguments regarding the possible implementation paths and connecting state governance structures to stakeholders, and allowing the collective and legitimate construction of public interest.
Topic:
Foreign Policy, International Trade and Finance, World Trade Organization, and Policy Implementation
Dawisson Belém Lopes, Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria, and Manoel Santos
Publication Date:
12-2016
Content Type:
Journal Article
Journal:
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
In this article we propose an alternative theoretical path to study contemporary Latin American foreign policies, evoking the notion of 'public policy cycle' to explain how democratic regimes in the region have been able to expand their autonomy over time. For that, we will first identify the sources of a given country's foreign policy, both at home and abroad, as well as its decision-making and implementation mechanisms. With regard to methodology, by replacing sheer deductivism for some inductivism, this approach also innovates in allowing more rigorous comparative politics and, consequently, new general theories about Latin American politics and policies.
Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros, Israel Barnabé, Rodrigo Albuquerque, and Rafael Lima
Publication Date:
12-2016
Content Type:
Journal Article
Journal:
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
This article provides a comprehensive picture of IR in South America by applying content analysis to 7,857 articles published in 35 journals from six South American countries from 2006 to 2014 in order to discover what the predominant theories, methods and research areas in this field are, how scholars tend to combine them in their research designs, and what the profiles of regional journals are, regarding their epistemological, methodological and subject preferences. The findings reveal a predominantly Positivist and largely Qualitative discipline, resembling North American and European IR.
Topic:
Research, International Relations Theory, Academia, Knowledge Production, and Content Analysis
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
This article discusses the role of China, Russia, India and Brazil in the climate regime. It describes the trajectory of their emissions, of their domestic policies and of their international commitments, and argues that, despite their responsibility in causing the problem, they have been conservative forces in the climate regime.
Topic:
Climate Change, Politics, BRIC, and Decarbonization
Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI)
Abstract:
International cooperation on groundwater takes many forms. The mobilization of different actors helps to promote cooperation initiatives in South America, where the most well known case is the Guarani Aquifer System (GAS). This article intends to analyze how international actors have motivated cooperation on transboundary aquifers and its repercussions in South America, especially in the case of the GAS.
Topic:
International Cooperation, Natural Resources, Water, Governance, and Aquifers
Unidad de investigación sobre seguridad y cooperación (UNISCI)
Abstract:
El cambio climático es uno de los mayores desafíos de la actualidad. La UE ha abordado el
tema de forma claramente insuficiente desde el punto de vista teórico, con unos
planteamientos demasiado inmovilistas y hasta conformistas con su propia acción. Pero, al
mismo tiempo, ha sido uno de los primeros y principales actores internacionales en actuar y
posicionarse claramente en la lucha contra el cambio climático. La Estrategia Global de
Seguridad de la UE no aborda adecuadamente ni el cambio climático como prioridad
fundamental ni algunas de sus implicaciones en las políticas de los Estados Miembros de la
UE.
Topic:
Security, Climate Change, Energy Policy, and European Union
Unidad de investigación sobre seguridad y cooperación (UNISCI)
Abstract:
El presente artículo hace un recorrido de las relaciones de la UE y Rusia en la última década y constata
el deterioro en las relaciones bilaterales. La Rusia de Putin se ha convertido en un jugador
geoestratégico muy activo, con un comportamiento inquietante, rompiendo equilibrios de la escena
internacional que se arrastraban tras el final de la guerra fría. Rusia es una prioridad de la política
exterior y la seguridad europea en la nueva Estrategia Global de Seguridad, pero ha llegado a ser
también un formidable competidor. Este aspecto tendría que haber vertebrado más esta sección de la
Estrategia que no resulta convincente. Simultáneamente, la cuestión que no queda clara es qué
instrumentos tiene la UE para la defensa de sus vecinos cuando pueda ponerse en cuestión la soberanía
o la defensa territorial, cuestión que va más allá del apoyo a la resiliencia de estos vecinos.
Topic:
Security, European Union, Vladimir Putin, and Post-Soviet Space
Unidad de investigación sobre seguridad y cooperación (UNISCI)
Abstract:
The postwar development of the Intelligence Services in Japan has been based on two contrasting models: the
centralized model of the USA and the collegiality of UK, neither of which has been fully developed. This has
led to clashes of institutional competencies and poor anticipation of threats towards national security. This
problem of opposing models has been partially overcome through two dimensions: externally through the
cooperation with the US Intelligence Service under the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security; and
internally though the pre-eminence in the national sphere of the Department of Public Safety. However, the
emergence of a new global communicative dimension requires that a communicative-viewing remodeling of
this dual model is necessary due to the increasing capacity of the individual actors to determine the dynamics of
international events. This article examines these challenges for the Intelligence Services of Japan and proposes
a reform based on this new global communicative dimension.
Topic:
International Relations, Security, Intelligence, Terrorism, and Communications