Relações Brasil-África: um estudo sobre a perspectiva de mudança da política externa brasileira nos governos Dilma, Temer e Bolsonaro

Abstract

Towards the end of Lula da Silva's government, and, as new political leaders rotated through the Brazilian presidency, changes were observed in Brazil's role towards Africa, culminating in the absence of a significant Brazilian foreign policy agenda for the region. In a world increasingly based on multilateral exchanges, closer ties with Africa are of great value to Brazil's position on the international stage. The paper in question seeks to highlight factors that characterize the loss of interest in subsequent governments, from Dilma Rousseff to Jair Bolsonaro, while highlighting the role of Lula da Silva in the foundation of a more active foreign policy on the continent. To this end, and with the support of conceptual aspects from Hermann (1990), this paper is guided by an investigation that contextualizes the foreign policy of the presidents studied towards Africa, and presents primary sources of information, from presidential trips to new cooperation projects established, in order to verify the hypothesis that the objective of Brazilian foreign policy towards the African continent has changed since the presidential change.