Brazil’s Africa Strategy : Role Conception and the Drive for International Status

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa. Title 0 Copyright 5 Contents 0 List of Figures 0 List of Tables 0 Acknowledgments 0 1 Introduction: A South American Power Making Inroads into Africa 0 Approaches to Brazilian Foreign Policy 0 Explaining Brazil’s Africa Engagement 0 Theoretical Approach and Method of Inquiry 0 Structure of the Book 0 2 Great Powers and the Drive for Status in International Relations 0 2.1 Hierarchy in Anarchy: On the Special Role and Status of Great Powers 0 Defining Great Power Status 0 Social Recognition as Prerequisite of Great Power Status 0 Changing Criteria for Great Power Status 0 2.2 States and the Drive for Status in the International Social Hierarchy 0 Mechanisms of Status-Seeking 0 2.3. Chapter Summary and Analysis: Rising Powers and Their Quest for Great Power Status 0 3 Brazil in the World: Role Conception, Drive for Status, and Status-Seeking Strategies of a Power on the Rise 0 3.1. Brazilian International Identity and Drive for Status 0 Self-Image as Pacifist Giant 0 Long History of Global Engagement 0 Striving for the Permanent Seat: Brazil in the League of Nations and the United Nations 0 In Search for Recognition: Brazil between the Complex of Greatness and the Complex of Inferiority 0 3.2. Brazil’s International Status-Seeking Strategies 0 The Regional Strategy: Brazil as a South American Power? 0 Alliance with the System Leader: Brazil and the United States 0 The Autonomous Strategy: Brazil as an Independent Force in World Politics 0 3.3. Chapter Summary and Analysis: Brazilian International Status-Seeking between Alignment with and Opposition to the United States 0 4 Brazil in Africa: Extraregional Engagement as Springboard to Great Power Status 0 4.1. Brazil–Africa Relations: Brothers Separated by the Atlantic? 0 Brazil–Africa Relations in a Nutshell 0 Lula and the African Renaissance 0 Brazil’s Economic Projection in Africa 0 4.2 Bringing Solutions to Africa: Brazil’s Engagement in the Fields of Poverty, Health, and Energy 0 Africa as Cornerstone of Brazil’s South-South Cooperation 0 Brazil’s Africa Engagement in the Framework of the Global Fight against Hunger and Poverty 0 Brazil’s Africa Engagement in the Framework of the Global Fight against AIDS and Tropical Diseases 0 Brazil’s Africa Engagement in the Framework of Global Energy Security 0 4.3. Chapter Summary and Analysis: Gaining Profile as Africa’s Partner for Development 0 5 Why Africa? Motives for Brazil’s Africa Engagement 0 Africa as the Last Economic Frontier and “Place to Be” for Emerging Powers 0 Africa as Support Base for Brazil’s Great Power Quest 0 Africa as Test Case for Brazil’s Great Power Role 0 6 Conclusion: Brazil’s Africa Engagement as Status-Seeking Policy 0 Preliminary Assessment: Brazil on the Way to Great Power Status? 0 Brazil’s Africa Policy under Dilma: Lower Profile and Economic Focus 0 Avenues for Future Research 0 Notes 0 Chapter 1 0 Chapter 2 0 Chapter 3 0 Chapter 4 0 Chapter 5 0 Chapter 6 0 Literature 0 Index 0 In a unique contribution to ongoing debates about emerging powers in Africa, Brazil's I Africa Strategy examines Brazil's engagement with Africa, embedding its analysis within a broader study of Brazil's foreign policy objectives and Brazil's international identity. Stolte draws on data collected from in-depth interviews and a wide array of Brazilian government institutions to provide a comprehensive overview. The study demonstrates that Brazil's Africa strategy is driven not only by economic motives and African resources, but also by a campaign to gain global recognition and establish Brazil's status as a World Power on the international stage. The book covers an important and much-neglected component of contemporary Brazilian foreign policy and makes a significant contribution to International Relations theory on emerging powers by introducing non-material drivers to debates about the motives for extra-regional engagement. Book jacket In a unique contribution to on-going debates about emerging powers in Africa, Brazil's Africa Strategy examines Brazil's engagement with Africa, embedding its analysis within a broader study of Brazil's foreign policy objectives and Brazil's international identity. Stolte draws on data collected from in-depth interviews and a wide array of Brazilian government institutions to provide a comprehensive overview, which demonstrates that Brazil's Africa strategy is driven not only by economic motives and African resources, but also by a campaign to gain global recognition and establish Brazil's status as a World Power on the international stage. The book covers an important and much-neglected component of contemporary Brazilian foreign policy and makes a significant contribution to International Relations theory on emerging powers by introducing non-material drivers to debates about the motives for extra-regional engagement Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction: A South American Power Making Inroads into Africa....Pages 1-13 Great Powers and the Drive for Status in International Relations....Pages 15-42 Brazil in the World: Role Conception, Drive for Status, and Status-Seeking Strategies of a Power on the Rise....Pages 43-82 Brazil in Africa: Extraregional Engagement as Springboard to Great Power Status....Pages 83-138 Why Africa? Motives for Brazil’s Africa Engagement....Pages 139-148 Conclusion: Brazil’s Africa Engagement as Status-Seeking Policy....Pages 149-161 Back Matter....Pages 163-220 Introduction : A South American Power Making Inroads Into Africa -- Great Powers And The Drive For Status In International Relations -- Brazil In The World : Role-conception, Drive For Status And Status-seeking Strategies Of A Power On The Rise -- Brazil In Africa : Extra-regional Engagement As Springboard To Great Power Status -- Why Africa? : Motives For Brazil's Africa Engagement -- Conclusion : Brazil's Africa Engagement As Status-seeking Policy -- Literature. Christina Stolte. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.