Brazil's Emerging Role in Global Governance - (International Political Economy) by M Fraundorfer (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade in the sectors of health, food security and bioenergy, this book sheds light on the power strategies of an emerging country from the global south.

Review Quotes

"The book relates to literature on international relations and the role of emerging powers in global governance. ... The book offers a contribution to the literature on global governance in the issue areas of health, food safety and bioenergy in general, and about Brazil's foreign relations in these particular sectors. ... The author develops a clear and coherent analytical framework, which is consistently applied in each sector analysed, offering thus an overall well structured book, which is reader friendly." (Renata Campos Motta, American and Caribbean Studies, Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, Issue 104, July-December, 2017)

About the Author

Markus Fraundorfer is a Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He received his PhD from the University of Hamburg (GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies). He also holds an MA in International Politics from The University of Manchester, UK. He was a visiting research fellow at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the University of Brasília (UnB). His current research focuses on the transformation processes in global governance, the possibilities to democratise global governance mechanisms and Brazil's political emergence in the international system.