Uncle Sam looking toward Brazil

representations of US think tanks regarding Brazil’s international performance in the BRICS (2009-2016)

Abstract

This article analyzes the representations of the American think tanks respect for the international performance of Brazil through the BRICS during the presidencies of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. Between the years 2003 to 2016, Brazil developed a foreign policy aimed at the top of its international relevance. As one of the central strategies used to increase its participation in the main multilateral decisions, as well as making Sul Global a leader, the country involved in the formation of new coalitions with other intermediate/emerging countries, among them or the BRICS. Making a major innovation in international relations at the beginning of the 21st century, a coalition BRICS has become a reference to the identification of intentions and the potential for influence of these new actors in the international system. In this context, the searchers recognize which are the strategic options in relation to the performance in Brazil through the BRICS circulating in the political environment of the US, particularly with the think tanks. From the analysis of the verifiable content that, for a great majority of writers, Brazil was defined as an actor with little commitment to the maintenance of the order. According to this view, Brazil questions the position of the US and acts alongside countries that violate human rights and democracy.