The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations
Abstract The globally expanded international society established a standard of statehood as central criteria for its membership. The end of the Cold War witnessed an ascendant, albeit contested, liberal democracy as a preferred regime in global imaginaries. Within this context, the re-democratizatio...
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| author | Daniela Vieira Secches Marinana Andrade e Barros Frederico Freire Fernandes |
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| description | Abstract The globally expanded international society established a standard of statehood as central criteria for its membership. The end of the Cold War witnessed an ascendant, albeit contested, liberal democracy as a preferred regime in global imaginaries. Within this context, the re-democratization processes experienced in Latin America amid profound international systemic reorientations implied the renegotiation of regional and local social imaginaries, as, for example, in the Brazilian case. In this article, we seek to discuss Brazil’s selective and creative adaptation in the space of overlaps between global, regional, and local social imaginaries about the government regime since the 1990s. Through a theoretical-empirical approach based on the discussion about the construction of shared understandings between international and domestic social spaces, we opted for a pragmatic theoretical foundation with the support of the English School of International Relations, critical philosophy, and the sociology of Bourdieu to study the Brazilian case. By focusing on the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government, it is proposed to qualitatively analyse documents from the period that problematize the country’s external insertion based on the interaction with the global and the regional social imaginaries about liberal democracy, with the support of a bibliographical review grounded on specialized secondary sources. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-931e832c5b3f4c4c9a5a66fb80dc52c62025-08-20T03:44:13ZspaPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroContexto Internacional1982-02402025-08-0147110.1590/s0102-8529.20254701e20230068The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local RepresentationsDaniela Vieira Seccheshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4682-4665Marinana Andrade e Barroshttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7903-5190Frederico Freire Fernandeshttps://orcid.org/0009-0001-2322-650XAbstract The globally expanded international society established a standard of statehood as central criteria for its membership. The end of the Cold War witnessed an ascendant, albeit contested, liberal democracy as a preferred regime in global imaginaries. Within this context, the re-democratization processes experienced in Latin America amid profound international systemic reorientations implied the renegotiation of regional and local social imaginaries, as, for example, in the Brazilian case. In this article, we seek to discuss Brazil’s selective and creative adaptation in the space of overlaps between global, regional, and local social imaginaries about the government regime since the 1990s. Through a theoretical-empirical approach based on the discussion about the construction of shared understandings between international and domestic social spaces, we opted for a pragmatic theoretical foundation with the support of the English School of International Relations, critical philosophy, and the sociology of Bourdieu to study the Brazilian case. By focusing on the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government, it is proposed to qualitatively analyse documents from the period that problematize the country’s external insertion based on the interaction with the global and the regional social imaginaries about liberal democracy, with the support of a bibliographical review grounded on specialized secondary sources.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-85292025000100209&tlng=endemocracyBrazilsocial imaginaryinternational societyLatin America |
| spellingShingle | Daniela Vieira Secches Marinana Andrade e Barros Frederico Freire Fernandes The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations Contexto Internacional democracy Brazil social imaginary international society Latin America |
| title | The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations |
| title_full | The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations |
| title_fullStr | The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations |
| title_short | The Consolidation of Liberal Democracy in Brazil: Encountering Global, Regional, and Local Representations |
| title_sort | consolidation of liberal democracy in brazil encountering global regional and local representations |
| topic | democracy Brazil social imaginary international society Latin America |
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