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Brazil’s International Status and Recognition as an Emerging Power

Inconsistencies and Complexities

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Authors:
  1. Daniel Buarque

    1. São Paulo, Brazil

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  • Analyses Brazil's international status from the perspective of great powers
  • Considers to what degree Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in global status
  • Discusses what a country needs to do in order to increase its level of international prestige

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 1-17

  3. Brazil’s Status Ambition

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 19-59

  4. The Eyes of the Beholders: Intersubjectivity and Status in International Relations

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 61-95

  5. Brazil’s International Status: A Coveted Pawn

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 97-113

  6. Out of War and Peace: Brazil’s Insignificance in Global Security

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 115-137

  7. Brazil Is Its Own Biggest Enemy

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 139-156

  8. Reaching New Heights: Towards a Theory of Recognition of New Powers

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 157-178

  9. Brazil’s Status Inconsistency and the Barriers of the International Status Quo

    • Daniel Buarque
    Pages 179-195

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 197-200
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About this book

This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in its global status. Buarque compares the long-standing ambitions of Brazilian foreign policy elites with external perspectives of observers in states with greater international status who would need to recognize Brazil as a great power and a state increasing in international prestige. Buarque develops a multidisciplinary approach influenced by sociology and psychology scholarship and gives special attention to the importance of recognition whilst drawing on international relations scholarship focussed on prestige, identity, roles and ontological security. In so doing, the book argues for the difference between the status and role Brazil aspires to have in the world and the external beliefs about the level of prestige of the state, amounting to status inconsistency and anxiety leading to ontological insecurity. It proposes that powerful states perceive Brazil as a coveted pawn in international politics and outlines a typology of what states that aspire to have more prestige need to do to achieve recognition for higher status.

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  • São Paulo, Brazil

    Daniel Buarque

About the author

Daniel Buarque researches and focuses on the study of international status of states from an intersubjective external perspective, working towards a theory of how nations can increase their level of prestige. He is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo, holds a joint PhD in International Relations from King’s College London (UK) in partnership with Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) and also holds an MA in Brazil in Global Perspective from King’s College London. A journalist with more than 20 years of experience in Brazilian news outlets, he has also published six books.

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