Brazil's Africa Strategy: Role Conception and the Drive for International Status

by C. Stolte

Overview

The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137499578
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	04/16/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Christina Stolte is a Research Fellow at the German Institute or Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and a Visiting Researcher at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI). Christina is a political scientist with a specialization in Latin American Studies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A South American Power making Inroads into Africa 2. Great Powers and the Drive for Status in International Relations 3. Brazil in the World: Role-Conception, Drive for Status and Status-Seeking Strategies of a Power on the Rise 4. Brazil in Africa: Extra-Regional Engagement as Springboard to Great Power Status 5. Why Africa? Motives for Brazil's Africa Engagement 6. Conclusion: Brazil's Africa Engagement as Status-Seeking Policy 7. Literature