QUIRINO STEINER, ANDREA, DE ALMEIDA MEDEIROS, MARCELO, and DE SOUZA LIMA, RAFAEL MESQUITA
Subjects
*HISTORY of diplomacy, *COUP d'etat, Honduras, 2009, *NUCLEAR energy, *HISTORY, *INTERNATIONAL relations, BRAZILIAN foreign relations, BRAZILIAN politics & government, WESTERN influences on developing countries' civilizations, WESTERN countries
Abstract
This paper reviews Brazil's pursuit for international insertion by: discussing its search for new partners; presenting an overview of the historical, cultural, and political features that render it the most Western of the emerging nations; and analyzing its participation in the management of two major international crises, the Honduran constitutional crisis and the Iranian nuclear crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]