The BRICS and Brazilian public opinion: soft balancing or economic strategy?

Authors :: Vinicius Ruiz Albino de Freitas
Ivan Filipe de Almeida Lopes Fernandes
Janina Onuki
Source :: Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Vol 64, Iss 2 (2021), Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Article number: e012, Published: 29 NOV 2021, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional v.64 n.2 2021, Revista brasileira de política internacional, Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (IBRI), instacron:IBRI
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais, 2021.
Abstract: The paper examines Brazilians’ attitudes toward the BRICS, verifying whether the soft balancing strategy finds support on public opinion, by using survey data from the Brazil, the Americas and the World Project. Results indicate that the attitudes toward the BRICS countries are similar to those toward other relevant partners. Moreover, attitudes toward the BRICS are not associated with a rejection of the US, which points to the possibility of soft-balancing having support in national public opinion.