{"title":"Brazilian Foreign Policy from Lisbon to Bandung","authors":"Marcelo Alves de Paula Lima","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.20224403e20210072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.20224403e20210072","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing from constructivist scholarship, this article dwells on the relations between Brazil and the Afro-Asian world based on the writings of diplomat Adolpho Justo Bezerra de Menezes, who advocated a larger commitment of the Brazilian foreign policy to the Global South. The author acted both as a norm entrepreneur who problematized Brazilian belonging to the West and a practical-intuitive historian who used the past to show that the ties uniting Brazil to Asia and Africa were tighter than those uniting it to Europe.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"460 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85550530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Military Build-up in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea: How Relevant Are the Disputes with China?","authors":"Bruno Hendler, André Luiz Gatto Motta","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Abstract: The South China Sea (SCS) is one of the regions with the most dynamic and intense military activity in the world. This is largely due to commercial and political interests linked to the region, which is crucial for global maritime trade and rich in natural resources. China is the most interested party in the SCS, claiming 90% of its entire area, a portion referred to by Beijing as the “nine-dash line.” The present article seeks to analyse both quantitatively and qualitatively the influence of China on the military spending of four Southeast (SE) Asian countries that are also interested in the SCS: Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. For quantitative analysis, we used the data for military expenditure, armaments acquisition, the frequency and type of incidents involving national navies and/or civilians. For qualitative analysis, we retrieved information from hemerographic sources and official documents from the United States, China, SE Asian countries, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the World Bank (WB).","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"128 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73760471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese Investments in Brazil: Economic Diplomacy in Bilateral Relations","authors":"Virginia Soledad Busilli, María Belén Jaime","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The People’s Republic of China has consolidated its status as a great power and strengthened its presence in different regions of the planet. In accordance with its economic development strategy, Beijing’s growing bond with Latin America is part of China’s need to guarantee access to raw materials and energy resources. In this framework and through economic diplomacy, China has strengthened its trade relations, as well as loans and investments in most of the region’s countries.Brazil is an example of this relationship pattern, as one of China’s most important partners and top investment destination in Latin America. It became Beijing’s top commercial partner in 2012. This paper will analyse the composition and evolution of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Brazil between the years of 2004 and 2020. In order to do so, we will study the main projects carried out by the country, as well as the characteristics of the Chinese companies (state or non-state) that participated in the process, in order to understand their most important features. Likewise, we will analyse the articulation of the Chinese FDI with its trade flows. We will start from the premise that Chinese investments in Brazil are directly linked to Beijing’s strategic interests, while at the same time guided by market logics that try to maximise profits. In this vein, within the framework of the ‘going out strategy’,state companies play a fundamental role.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85801952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Municipalist Activism to Institutional Changes: An Analysis of the Subnational Dimension in Mercosur (1995-2019)","authors":"Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Mercosur has gone through distinct phases, leading to the articulation between a myriad of sectors, groups, and actors, among which subnational governments stand out. Local governments started this movement in 1995, with the foundation of the Mercosur Cities Network. In 2000, the Specialized Meeting of Municipalities and Intendencies (REMI) was created, replaced in the following years by the Mercosur Advisory Forum of Municipalities, States, Provinces, and Departments (FCCR), known for being the channel for subnational representation in the bloc. Drawing on bibliographic and document analysis, in addition to interviews and questionnaires, this article aims to analyze the internationalization and inclusion of subnational actors in Mercosur, mainly focusing on the changes observed over the years within these three institutions. The first section introduces the literature on paradiplomacy and deals specifically with Mercosur, seeking to verify how the regional agenda has been expanded, despite decision-making processes not being decentralized. The second and third sections analyse the origins of subnational integration through Mercocities alongside the development of REMI and FCCR. Considering the historical and institutional specificities of Mercosur, the research concludes by questioning the assumption of International Relations literature that regional blocs are potential arenas for effective internationalization of subnational governments.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85208277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing","authors":"João Fernando Finazzi","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78268856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Mind the Gap’: Assessing Differences between Brazilian and Mainstream IR Journals in Methodological Approaches","authors":"Thales Carvalho, J. Gabriel, Dawisson Belém Lopes","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, we assess the methodological approaches employed in articles published in Brazilian and global mainstream IR journals in order to observe the differences between the two. To this end, we compare the methodological tools applied in research articles published in the top two Brazilian journals (Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional and Contexto Internacional) vis-à-vis two other top international influential mainstream publications (International Organization and World Politics), from the year 2009 to 2019. By undertaking a Systematic Literature Review, we surveyed a total of 955 articles. Our research concluded that Brazilian IR scholarship differs from the mainstream literature because (1) most articles do not mention the mobilized methods during their analyses, (2) the field of IR presents more non- and post-positivist approaches, and (3) contrary to the mainstream outlets, quantitative methods are rarely employed in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87353607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. W. D. Santos, André Pimentel Ferreira Leão, Jonathan Raphael Vieira da Rosa
{"title":"Explaining the Changes in Brazilian Foreign Policy towards South America under Michel Temer’s Administration (2016-2018): The Return to the Logic of Open Regionalism","authors":"L. W. D. Santos, André Pimentel Ferreira Leão, Jonathan Raphael Vieira da Rosa","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The administration of President Michel Temer (2016-2018) led to significant changes in Brazilian foreign policy towards South America as opposed to the country’s goals that had remained in place for over a decade. This article addresses the question of how and why these changes unfolded under Temer’s government. Anchored in an analytical framework of Public Policy Analysis, we develop two main arguments. Firstly, we claim that the changes in foreign policy towards South America represented a paradigmatic transition from a post-liberal strategy to the restoration of the logic of open regionalism. Secondly, we argue that this change resulted from the coupling of the three dimensions of the political process: problem recognition, policy alternatives, and politics. The primary cause of such change was the political dispute in the public arena between business groups and party leadership.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79329790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sovereign Power, Government and Global Liberalism’s Crisis","authors":"M. Cuadro","doi":"10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-8529.2019430300001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Abstract: For some time now a leading cause of debate among IR scholars has been the so-called Liberal International Order (LIO) and its assumed crisis. This article pierces this debate from a critical perspective asserting that different conceptions and analytics of power allow diverse questions on and diagnoses of liberalism in the global realm. With this objective, it confronts Ikenberry’s conception of LIO with the Foucauldian notion of liberalism. This is done by identifying the conception of power that underlies each notion of liberalism, assuming the former as performative. This way, it first defines two different conceptions of power: sovereign and governmental. Second, it links Ikenberry’s conception of LIO with the sovereign conception of power and points out the political and analytical effects of this relation, mainly, the hierarchical character of LIO and the consequent desire for a West-led world. Third, it develops Foucault’s conception of liberalism linked to governmental power and establishes some of its political and analytical effects: the importance of a heterarchical notion of power focused on the dimension of subject and subjectivity for the analysis of the present, and the political need to reflect on our practices of freedom.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"130 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77856457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Jimena De los Reyes Cruz, Ricardo Gómez Maturano, Luis Guillermo Ayala Torres
{"title":"Componentes de la luz:","authors":"Maria Jimena De los Reyes Cruz, Ricardo Gómez Maturano, Luis Guillermo Ayala Torres","doi":"10.29105/contexto15.23-279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/contexto15.23-279","url":null,"abstract":"La luz en la arquitectura se ha concebido desde diferentes perspectivas como estética, funcional, métodos de iluminación, normativo; sin embargo, en la arquitectura poco se han considerado el efecto de la luz a nivel neuronal. En este contexto, el objetivo es realizar una revisión de las investigaciones de neurociencias sobre la luz y su relación con los espacios, en particular con sus efectos en el sistema nervioso, procesos cognitivos y estados de ánimo. En la revisión se encontró que poco se han realizado en la búsqueda del confort en iluminación, debido al número de factores que la componen, las contradicciones en torno a sus investigaciones y la falta de control sobre éstas; A pesar de esto ha sido muy difundida la curva de confort de Kruithof. Los resultados muestran que hay aspectos cualitativos y cuantitativos, de la intensidad luminosa y la temperatura color que aporta la luz al espacio; y no solo el factor estético. Estos factores interactúan con la forma arquitectónica y a su vez pueden modular la actividad cerebral produciendo o facilitando procesos de atención, memoria, juicios de belleza y no siempre están dentro de los rangos de la muy usada curva de confort de Kruithof.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82741077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regularización y mercado de suelo urbano en asentamientos irregulares.","authors":"Carlos Leal-Iga, María Teresa Cedillo Salazar","doi":"10.29105/contexto15.23-346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/contexto15.23-346","url":null,"abstract":"El mercado del suelo urbano en polígonos con asentamientos irregulares ha sido estudiado desde varias perspectivas, sin embargo, las dificultades para entender los motivos que fundamentan el vivir en ambientes sin las condiciones urbanas adecuadas no han sido resueltas. Este artículo tiene por objetivo general estudiar los factores que determinan la decisión de los posesionarios de ocupar el espacio, y en lo particular se analiza el caso de estudio de la zona denominada Cima de la Loma ubicada en la parte alta del área central de la ciudad de Monterrey, México. Se utilizó como metodología el análisis georreferenciado de información de los pobladores, la visita al campo en conjunto con autoridades para recorrer la zona, así como la aplicación del método de regresión logística binaria a las variables de interés. El resultado obtenido indica que hay una tendencia a regularizar los predios de los posesionarios en la medida en que sean mejor sus condiciones de accesibilidad en cuanto a condiciones físicas del espacio y estado físico de los habitantes, y de los factores de la población, el convivir en hogares y la mejor preparación escolar tienden a fomentar la decisión de los posesionarios a la regularización.","PeriodicalId":30003,"journal":{"name":"Contexto Internacional","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87203843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}