Regional Leadership through Global Channels: Autonomy, diversification and acceptance

MELISA DECIANCIO

Global and Regional Leadership of the BRICS Countries

Springer

Lugar: Brujas; Año: 2015; p. 49 - 66

During the last decades, Brazil has emerged as a new actor with an active role in the international arena. Becoming a middle power with regional leadership aspirations and global influence ambitions has been the main goal of the Palacio do Planalto and Itamaraty. Evidence of this can be found when analyzing Brazilian role in most of the multilateral foras it participates at the regional and at the global level.