Foreign Policy – AU Brazil Research Initiative

China’s Campaign for Brazilian Hearts

China's cultural influence in Latin America remains understudied. While there are many good analyses of its rising economic heft in the Western Hemisphere, our understanding of China’s public diplomacy efforts and its cultural outreach is incipient. With the aim of beginning to address this gap, American University's Center for Latin American...

By Mateus Ribeiro da Silva March 18, 2022Foreign Policy, Politics

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Brazil’s Kremlin Convolutions

Bolsonaro’s engagement with Putin in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine was bizarre, to say the least.

By Matthew Taylor February 25, 2022Foreign Policy

Environment Foreign Policy Judiciary

Don’t Count on the Amazon

Can the international community rely on carbon sequestration in the Amazon as a strategy for halting global warming? Don’t count on it, even after Jair Bolsonaro’s grudging green conversion this past week. Convincing Bolsonaro to change his tune must have been no small task, judging by the ratcheting up of...

By Matthew Taylor April 23, 2021Environment, Foreign Policy, Judiciary2 Comments

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Confronting Latin America’s Diplomatic Decline

In a pair of stimulating recent articles in Foreign Policy and Nueva Sociedad, Andrés Malamud and Luis Schenoni discuss the declining relevance of the Latin American region to geopolitics. Given their focus on regional trends, the articles are understandably low on specifics about particular countries and specific foreign policy choices. But the Nueva Sociedad article...

By Matthew Taylor April 6, 2021Foreign Policy