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Brazil: What Rise of What Power?
Author(s) -
GARDINI GIAN LUCA
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12417
Subject(s) - power (physics) , politics , administration (probate law) , political science , economy , political economy , sociology , economics , law , physics , quantum mechanics
From 2003, the L ula administration has started a discourse and a practice of B razil as a major international player. However, the conversion of a giant economy and political activism into regional and global power status has eluded B razil so far. Labels such as great power or leader do not fit it. This article suggests that the problem is not with B razil being unable to tick all the boxes but with the definitions that we use. Hence a call for new mental categories that better capture the surge of B razil and other emerging powers in the twenty‐first century. Drawing from the business literature, B razil can be better understood as an international manager.