CIAO DATE: 11/2009
June 2009
Institute for Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University
As the great global crisis eases its grasp, it is a time to reconsider relations between Brazil and the North, especially the United States and the European Union. While the world economy is still reeling, it is very possible that a new and more productive period in Brazil’s relations with the US and Europe is possible. This positive outcome derives from numerous factors, most especially Brazil’s “peaceful rise” to a more prominent global role and the arrival of the Obama administration whose promise of a new beginning in U.S. foreign policy has been greeted with such evident enthusiasm in Latin America. Three preliminary observations about Brazil suggest that a more productive engagement with the transatlantic community of wealthier nations is feasible and desirable, and yet also challenging as it goes against the established grain of Brazilian foreign policy.
Resource link: Brazil and the Transatlantic Community in the Wake of the Global Crisis [PDF] - 56K