The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration

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Autor principal: Morales-Ruvalcaba, Daniel
Formato: Online
Idioma:spa
Publicado: Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/15446
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The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration
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title The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration
title_short The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration
title_full The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration
title_fullStr The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration
title_full_unstemmed The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration
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title_alt La política exterior de Estados Unidos hacia Brasil: Cambios y continuidades en la Administración Biden
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spelling RI154462023-03-03T23:00:41Z The Foreign Policy of the United States Towards Brazil: Changes and Continuities in Biden's Administration La política exterior de Estados Unidos hacia Brasil: Cambios y continuidades en la Administración Biden Morales-Ruvalcaba, Daniel Brasil Donal Trump Estados Unidos Jair Bolsonaro Joseph Biden Política exterior Brazil Donald Trump Foreign Policy Jair Bolsonaro Joseph Biden United States During his first two years as president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro gave the relationship with the United States the highest priority, achieving an extraordinary understanding with President Donald Trump. However, the arrival of Joseph Biden to the presidency has had a significant impact on that understanding. Here it is shown that the Brazilian-American relations with Presidents Trump and Bolsonaro were framed in their populist government programs and that they were driven by their mutual personal understanding, altering the priorities (but not the content) of the bilateral agenda. The arrival of Biden and his ideological distancing from Bolsonaro does not necessarily imply a cooling in the bilateral relationship, but rather a redirection to institutional channels thanks to the pre-existing mechanisms between the United States and Brazil, as well as a return to historical priorities: economic affairs first, then energy and environmental issues, later military cooperation and finally social topics. In this research, the deductive methodology has been implemented in the study of two dimensions: a discursive one, by examining the most important official speeches of Trump, Bolsonaro and Biden in Brazilian-American relations, with the aim of identifying changes in their perceptions and priorities; and another historical one, when studying the performance of bilateral institutions in the aforementioned areas, in order to detect continuity patterns that go beyond presidential administrations. Durante sus dos primeros años como presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro dio la máxima prioridad a la relación con Estados Unidos, logrando un entendimiento extraordinario con el presidente Donald Trump. Sin embargo, la llegada de Joseph Biden a la presidencia ha tenido un significativo impacto en dicho entendimiento. Aquí se demuestra que las relaciones brasileño-estadounidense con los presidentes Trump y Bolsonaro se enmarcaron en sus programas de gobierno populistas y que fueron impulsadas por su mutuo entendimiento personal, alterando las prioridades (pero no el contenido) de la agenda bilateral. La llegada de Biden y su distanciamiento ideológico con Bolsonaro no implica necesariamente un enfriamiento en la relación bilateral, sino un redireccionamiento a los canales institucionales gracias a los mecanismos preexistentes entre Estados Unidos y Brasil, así como un retorno a las prioridades históricas: primero los asuntos económicos, luego los energéticos y medioambientales, posteriormente los militares y finalmente los sociales. En esta investigación se ha implementado la metodología deductiva en el estudio de dos dimensiones: una discursiva, al examinar los discursos oficiales más importantes de Trump, Bolsonaro y Biden en las relaciones brasileño-estadounidenses, con el objetivo de identificar los cambios en sus percepciones y prioridades; y otra histórica, al estudiar el desempeño de las instituciones bilaterales en las áreas antes referidas, con la finalidad de detectar los patrones de continuidad que van más allá de las administraciones presidenciales. Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica 2021-06-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip application/xml https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/15446 10.15359/ri.94-1.7 Relaciones Internacionales; Vol. 94 No. 1 (2021): International Relations; 141-169 Relaciones Internacionales; Vol. 94 Núm. 1 (2021): Relaciones Internacionales; 141-169 2215-4582 1018-0583 spa https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/15446/22052 https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/15446/22053 https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/15446/22054 https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ri/article/view/15446/23581 Derechos de autor 2021 Daniel Morales-Ruvalcaba