Opinion – Bolsonaro as Antithesis to the Green Growth Agenda
In the absence of a radical overhaul of existing economic policies, it is unlikely that Brazil will be able to offer any green transformation.
Interview – Rubens Ricupero
Former Minister and Secretary General of UNCTAD, Rubens Ricupero, discusses Brazilian foreign policy and diplomacy, today’s environmental agenda, and the Real Plan.
The Pandemic in Brazil: Normality as Necropolitics
COVID has caused social chaos in Brazil, and a discourse of return to normality and valorization of the economy to the detriment of public health is being headed by the country’s highest authority.
Opinion – Bolsonaro’s Green and Yellow Guards
The green and yellow guards are the eyes and mouths of a cultural revolution – using ordinary citizens to monitor the behaviour of people and institutions.
Interview – Miguel Dhenin
Miguel Dhenin talks about the military’s role in public services and politics in Brazil, as well as the ‘strategic environment’ in the Brazilian context.
Opinion – Bolsonaro’s Foreign Policy is Typically Latin American
The ideas guiding Bolsonaro’s foreign policy are not essentially different from those championed by many others who preceded him.
Analyzing Jair Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 War Metaphors
Bolsonaro’s militaristic rhetoric construing the notion that the COVID-19 threat is external gives rise to a false sense of stability and internal security.
Between Political Crisis and COVID-19: Bolsonaro’s Foreign Policy
Whilst the pandemic spreads, Bolsonaro’s government has been unable to fulfill the need for domestic and external resources to fight the disease.
Bolsonaro’s Brazil in Times of COVID-19: A Necropolitical Pharmakon
Once seen by millions as the remedy for Brazil’s “disease”, Jair Bolsonaro is turning into the poison many feared he would become.
