Brazil's former president, Lula, is navigating foreign policy challenges as he aims to assert global leadership. Despite past missteps, Lula possesses strategic assets to influence global affairs. His presidency has seen Brazil's reemergence on the world stage, with efforts to mend relationships with Western nations. However, criticisms point to Lula's ambiguous stance on various global issues, including environmental protection and alliances with autocratic regimes. Analysts highlight the need for a clear foreign policy strategy to address pressing threats such as the expansion of criminal networks and ecological concerns. Lula's interactions with world leaders like Vladimir Putin underscore Brazil's diplomatic engagements and geopolitical positioning.
Lula describes the very "good relationship" he has with Vladimir Putin, and recalls that Dilma, Brazil's president before and after him, did as well. Russia, he says, was key to getting Brazil's seat on the UN Security Council while China and the US opposed it. https://t.co/CTLLbPteBd
Since taking office in 2023, Lula has alienated Brazil’s partners in both the global North and the global South, writes @MatiasSpektor. What can the Brazilian president do to strengthen his international hand? https://t.co/ZLO7ZQ7THy
Lula wants Brazil to be all things to all people: a defender of the environment and a global oil power, a promoter of peace and an ally for autocrats. The country may well be back, but the part it is playing on the world stage is murky https://t.co/F2XNV3csIR 👇
“Lula’s grand strategic design overlooks his country’s most pressing threat: the explosive expansion of criminal networks that are working hard to turn Brazil into a failed state, and that are undermining the ecological integrity of the Amazon rainforest.” https://t.co/VeqlR6DKXq
Read @MatiasSpektor’s vision for a new Brazilian foreign policy strategy—one that can rebuild Lula’s reputation as a diplomatic broker and help reverse the dangerous expansion of Brazil’s criminal networks. https://t.co/SKrNBp0UN9
“At a time when almost all major powers are ensnared by war or its specter, Brazil’s geographical and political distance from the primary zones of conflict allow Lula to try to refocus global attention on the scourges of poverty and inequality.” https://t.co/Sdy4WrSU6M
Very much worth reading this critical examination of @LulaOficial’s foreign policy one year in by @MatiasSpektor, one of the best analysts of Brazil in the world. I’ll note, however, that one can imagine the exact opposite take had Lula done everything Spektor calls for here: 1/2 https://t.co/T2w8wkNe0u
Prior to Lula’s presidency, Brazil was something of a international pariah. Relationships with the West are now healing, but the country needs to decide what path it is forging https://t.co/J4bKOXmKTA 👇
“In Brazil, the executive branch has unilateral authority to set foreign policy. And for all his missteps, Lula still wields a unique set of strategic and diplomatic assets that can help him claim global leadership.” https://t.co/NoNpUr3oOP
Brazil has reclaimed its place on the world stage, and relationships with the West are healing. But Lula’s gaffes are dulling the country’s G20 shine https://t.co/y0ECbvsMk7 👇