Too Big a World? Lula, Brazil and the Middle East

The decision to enter the tangled web that is Middle Eastern politics as an extra-regional player, in order to push peace negotiations and help solve conflicts in the region, is a brave one by the Brazilian President Lula da Silva. This drive appears to correspond more closely to motives of presidentialist diplomacy than to the cool and considered calculation of an emerging country’s foreign policy.

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Author:Günther Maihold
Series:Elcano Analyses
Volume:2010
Issue:62
Publisher:Elcano Royal Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Madrid, Spain