Research on Brazilian Foreign Policy
I divide my research on Brazilian Foreign Policy into two branches: Identity and Middle Powers' behavior.
I created two research groups at IRI-USP involving graduate and undergraduate students to produce articles and books about these issues.
1) Brazilian Foreign Policy
Since 2014, I have a research group at IRI-USP studying the Brazilian foreign policy. The group has been graciously funded by the University of São Paulo Research Provost six times (2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023).
Published work on the Brazilian Foreign Policy:
Wehner, Leslie; Guimarães, Feliciano; and Saraiva, Miriam. 2024. Populists and Regional Organizations: Bolsonaro's Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI) (paper accepted).
Guimarães, Feliciano; Silva, Miquelasi, André; Silva, Irma; Alves, Gustavo; and Calandrin, Karina. (2023). The Evangelical Foreign Policy Paradigm: evangelical groups and Bolsonaro's foreign policy in Brazil. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 01, No. 01, p. 1-18
Guimarães, Feliciano; Moreira, Davi; Silva, Irma; and Mello, Anna. (2023). Conspiracy Theories and Foreign Policy Narratives: Globalism in Jair Bolsonaro's foreign policy. Latin American Perspectives, No. 00, p. 1-32.
Mongelli, Letícia; Guimarães, Feliciano; Silva, Irma; and Mello Anna. (2022). Populist Foreign Policy in the Global South: comparing Brazil and India far-right identity-sets. Book chapter in "The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South" by Tatiana Vargas and Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (eds.). New York: Routledge.
Guimarães, Feliciano; Silva, Irma; and Alves, Gustavo. (2022). From Regional Leader to Regional Antagonist: Bolsonaro’s anti-South American stance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Book chapter in "Regional and International Cooperation in South America: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-pandemia" by Melisa Deciancio and Cintia Quiliconi (eds.) New York: Routledge.
Guimarães, Feliciano; and Silva, Irma. (2021). Far-Right Populism and Foreign Policy Identity: Jair Bolsonaro's ultra-conservatism and the new politics of alignment. International Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 02, pp. 345-263.
link: https://academic.oup.com/ia/article-abstract/97/2/345/6159425?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Guimarães, Feliciano. (2020). The Uneasy Well-Placed State: Brazil within Latin America and the West. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 33, no. 04, pp. 603-619.
link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2020.1723059
Wali, Waslam; Wasthuizen, Janis; Wehner, Leslie; Koga, Kei; Guimarães, Feliciano; and Thies, Cameron. (2020). Misplaced States and the Politics of Regional Identity. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 33, no. 04, pp. 505-526.
link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2020.1723061
Guimarães, Feliciano; and Maitino, Martin. (2019). Socializing Brazil into Regional Leadership: the 2006 Bolivian Gas Crisis and the role of small powers in promoting master role transitions. Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 01, pp. 1-20.
link: https://academic.oup.com/fpa/article/15/1/1/4564717
Published book on Role Theory and Foreign Policy:
My book "A Theory of Master Role Transition: small powers shaping regional hegemons" was published in July 2020 by Routledge on the "Role Theory and International Relations" series (https://www.routledge.com/Role-Theory-and-International-Relations/book-series/RTIR).
In the book, I created a theory of master role transition for the interaction between regional powers and small powers. I developed five cases in which a small power contested and changed the dominant role of a regional power using an interactional strategy involving material and ideational instruments. The cases are the 2006 Brazil-Bolivia gas crisis, the 2008-2009 Brazil-Paraguay Itaipú Dam crisis, the 2008-2009 Brazil-Ecuador Odebrecht crisis, the 1994 South Africa-Lesotho military intervention crisis, and the 1996 India-Bangladesh Ganges water crisis.
2) Brazilian Foreign Policy and Middle Powers Behavior
From 2014 to 2018 I was part of another research group at IRI-USP focused on the comparative behavior of middle powers and regional powers. My interest for the subject began on a conference organized by Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida (IRI-USP), John Ravenhill (University of Waterloo), and Janice Stein (University of Toronto) in 2013 at the University of Toronto. The research has been funded by the USP Research Provost and FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo). It was my primary research interest as a visiting professor at the Political Science Department at Yale University (2019-2020).
Published work on Middle Powers / Regional Powers:
Guimarães, Feliciano de Sá; and Almeida, Maria Hermínia. (2018). From Middle Powers to Entrepreneurial Powers in World Politics: Brazil’s Successes and Failures in International Crises. Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 59, No. 04, pp. 26-66.
Guimarães, Feliciano de Sá; and Almeida, Maria Hermínia. (2018). Brazil's Entrepreneurial Power in World Politics: the Role of Great Powers and Regional Politics for Successful Entrepreneurship. International Journal, Vol. 78, No. 04, pp. 518-534.
link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020702018810876
3) Other publications on Brazilian Foreign Policy:
Kalout, Hussein and Guimarães, Feliciano. (2023). The Restoration of Brazilian Foreign Policy: How Lula can make up for the lost time. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 01, No. 01, p. 1-18
Kalout, Hussein e Guimarães, Feliciano. (2022). Uma política externa pendular entre EUA e China: o Brasil se protegendo para sobreviver. CEBRI-Revista, N. 04, p. 1-20.
Guimarães, Feliciano de Sá; and Estre, Felipe. (2021). Foreign Policy Analysis in Brazil: The Use of Middle-Range Theories. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press, p. 1-25.