The aim of this article is to present a balance of Barack Obama ́s government foreign policy from 2009 to 2010, analysing its content and the impact that mid-term elections, and the republican win, will have on its prospects for the next couple of years.
This article analyzes the recent crisis in Egypt and other Arab countries, from its domestic and international dimensions, discussing the origins and impacts.
With increasing production and reserves of oil and natural gas to South America has become a major exporter of energy (mainly Venezuela and Brazil), which attracted interest of the Chinese government to develop closer political and economic ties, especially in attempt to secure oil supplies for China and for providing the internationalization of operations of its oil companies in the South American continent.
This article examines the political and commercial relations between Brazil and Africa on two periods, the military regime and the present, aiming to briefly examine both and explore points of contact and current perspectives of the African policy.
This paper aims to study the Brazilian foreign policy of the Lula government to South America, analyzing his actions in a timely manner and relating it to the current debate about their ideological or pragmatic view. We conclude that such diplomacy is best qualifies as an independent and pragmatic, as it seeks dialogue with all States on the basis whenever the national interest.
The Russian Federation has witnessed at the dawn of the 21st century innovations in its foreign policy guidelines and values, reflecting the rise of a new group in the country's political elite and the resulting reconfiguration in the domestic political sphere. In this article we seek to elucidate and analyze the trends of current russian foreign policy, as well as exemplify how they were put into practice in the foreign relations and how they influenced the search for the resolution of sensible issues on the russian agenda.
Considering the significant use of multilateral economic sanctions and the relative absence of studies analyzing its limits, impacts and even its internal working, this article retakes some important works about its achieved results and suggests a fail in the sanctions‟ mechanism that could be responsible for its often alleged inefficiency.
This article seeks to analyze the growing importance of regional environment to the Brazilian foreign policy in President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s government. The central hypothesis is that the concept and foreign policy for South America was gaining a strategic space at the end of Cardoso’s government, through Mercosur and the project of South American integration.