Foreign policy responses to the rise of Brazil: balancing power in emerging states

Abstract

Over the last decade there has been a quiet proliferation of books examining Brazil's rise and its foreign policy direction and ambitions on the regional and global stage. The missing element in this growing literature has been a concomitant, careful examination of how Brazil's partners are reacting to its rise. While there have been a handful of isolated journal articles, a special issue of the Brazilian foreign policy journal Política Externa, and conferences that have moved little beyond the phase of posting video presentations (i.e. the 2012 Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies annual conference), so far the academy has fallen short of a clear and integrated examination of how others have responded to Brazil's rise. The collection of contributions under review here is an important corrective to this oversight, offering perhaps the most coherent and integrated treatment available to readers of Latin America's response to the increasingly muscular foreign policy of the hemisphere's Portuguese-speaking behemoth.