Research on Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
Since 2013, I have been involved with the research group 'Brasil, as Américas e o Mundo: opinião pública e política externa' which focuses on conducting public opinion surveys on international relations in Brazil. The group is based at CEBRAP (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento) and it has been generously funded four times by FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) in 2000, 2006, 2010 and 2018. On these occasions, the project was designated as a 'Projeto Temático,' a FAPESP designation for strategic and cutting-edge research in Brazil.
Published work on public opinion:
Guimarães, Feliciano and Fernandes, Ivan. (2024). Analyzing prejudice against immigrants in sending countries: The Brazilian case. Latin American Policy, early print, pp. 1-17.
link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lamp.12352#accessDenialLayout
Guimarães, Feliciano and Fernandes, Ivan. (2024). The Quest for Strategic Interdependence: What does Brazil think? CEBRI-CEBRAP-ECFR Publication.
link: https://cebri.org/br/doc/343/opiniao-publica-brasileira-e-o-mundo
Almeida, Maria Hermínia; Fernandes, Ivan Filipe; and Guimarães, Feliciano de Sá. (2021). Structuring Public Opinion in Foreign Policy Issues: the case of Brazil. Latin American Research Review, vol. 56, no. 03, pp. 557-574.
link: https://larrlasa.org/articles/10.25222/larr.876/
Guimarães, Feliciano; Fernandes, Ivan Filipe; and Maldonado, Gerardo. (2019). Domestic Attitudes toward Regional Leadership: a survey experiment in Brazil. Foreign Policy Analysis, vol 16, no. 01, pp. 98-117
link: https://academic.oup.com/fpa/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fpa/orz002/5320429?searchresult=1
Loureiro, Felipe; Guimarães, Feliciano; and Schor, Adriana. (2015). Public Opinion and Foreign Policy in João Goulart's Brazil: Coherence between national and foreign policy perceptions. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Vol. 58, No. 02, pp. 99-118
Working papers on public opinion:
Fernandes, Ivan; Almeida, Maria Herminia; Maldonado, Gerardo and Guimarães, Feliciano. (2025). Socio or egotropic attitudes toward trade: (re)evaluating economic and ideational determinants in Latin America. Accepted for publication at Journal of Latin American Studies.
Carvalho, Thales; Fernandes, Ivan and Guimarães, Feliciano. (2025). Ideology and Pacifism: How do Brazilians view the use of military power in foreign policy? Accepted for publication at Dados Revista.
Guimarães, Feliciano and Calandrin, Karina. (2024-2025). The Israel-Palestine conflict in the eyes of Brazilians: war, human rights, and religion. Paper under construction...