In 2024, the country hosted the G20, it holds the BRICS presidency this year (which, of course, is causing the US administration “geopolitical heartburn”), and it is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30).
Brazil is traditionally the leader of the Inter-American Community and a member of the subregional Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), the Forum for the Progress and Integration of South America (PROSUR), the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Latin American Economic System (LAES), and the Latin American Integration Association (LAI). It is a long-standing member of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (or Rio Treaty).
This entire array of international platforms and extensive external communications testifies to the growing role of the South American leader, not only in the Western Hemisphere, but also more broadly – in the projection of projects in the Global South and, of course, in the integration formats promoted by China.
Brazil has every opportunity to become a truly independent player on the global stage.
This requires ensuring genuine strategic and technological autonomy, as well as diversifying its partnerships and strengthening its international role in key, increasingly influential integration platforms operating outside the Washington Consensus, Alexander Stepanov writes.
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