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BRICS have been cast as a bloc with the potential to make significant changes in Global Health. The management of the Covid-19 pandemic has shown divisions in the bloc and the limits of its ability to formulate policies or even act upon previously agreed positions. This paper employs an examination of BRICS Health Ministerial declarations and an analysis of power in International Relations to reflect on BRICS' Global Health diplomacy during the Covid-19 pandemic, covering the key questions of vaccine research and development, vaccine nationalism, and travel bans. It finds that multiple dimensions of power matter in Global Health leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the literature on Foreign Policy Analysis, there is a flourishing debate on whether the administration of the Workers' Party represented a discontinuity in Brazil's foreign policy. By examining how food security was allocated in the external agenda, this paper claims that the rise of the Workers' Party did represented a rupture. Secondly, that social gains in reducing hunger were used as a tool to boost Brazil's soft power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the relationship between Brazil and the Caribbean Community, as well as with the Caribbean countries as a whole, have been historically left aside by Brazilian analysts, with an extremely limited amount of publications directed to the subject. This paper hopes to make an overview of historical, diplomatic, economic and political aspects and present events, as well as to offer a perspective of what the future might hold for the relationship between Brazil, the Caribbean Community and its member countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Brazil has long strived for greater status and a stronger role in international politics, but its actual standing depends on the recognition it gets from outside. This paper analyses the perceptions of the status of Brazil from the perspective of the UK. It contributes both to the study of status in IR (by using a qualitative method with focus on perceptions and inter-subjectivity) and to the study of the status of Brazil (by analysing external perceptions about its standing in the global hierarchy). Based on interviews with British diplomats who served in Brazil, it shows that the UK believes the country misperceives its own place in the world and appears to remain “on the fence” in global affairs.

This paper analyses the Venezuelan strategic pattern of international affairs that has been constructed by the use of petrodiplomacy under the Hugo Chavez administration taking for reference the importance of petroleum is a representative instrument of power in the international relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the literature on Foreign Policy Analysis, there is a flourishing debate on whether the administration of the Workers’ Party represented a discontinuity in Brazil’s foreign policy. By examining how food security was allocated in the external agenda, this paper claims that the rise of the Workers’ Party did represented a rupture. Secondly, that social gains in reducing hunger were used as a tool to boost Brazil’s soft power.