@article{1432090,
      recid = {1432090},
      author = {Alencastro Mathias, and Seabra, Pedro,},
      title = {Brazil-Africa relations in the 21st century : from surge  to downturn and beyond /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {This is the first book to analyse the full cycle of rise  and fall of Brazil's foreign policy towards Africa in the  beginning of the 21st century. During his government,  former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) made  the drive towards Africa one of the cornerstones of  Brazilian diplomacy and cooperation. In a bid to build  strategic trading partnerships with African counterparts,  Lula's government committed itself to an ambitious program  centred on provisions in loans and credits as well as the  exponential growth of its South-South cooperation. After  Lula, however, this drive towards Africa started to decline  and finally collapsed in face of political meltdown in  Brazil and the proliferation of controversial judicial  investigations that directly involved political leaders at  the centre of most initiatives undertook in the 2000s. The  rise and fall of Brazil-Africa relations has provoked much  discussion in policy-making, as well as scholarly research.  This book seeks to provide valuable resources to the study  of this process by presenting empirically based and updated  analysis from different perspectives, such as: The  diplomatic tradition of Brazil-Africa relations The role  played by Brazilian big private companies in Africa  Brazilian health cooperation with African countries The  participation of civil society in Brazil-Africa relations  Brazil-Africa trade relations Military cooperation between  Brazil and Africa Brazil's drive to Africa left a durable  mark, whose implications are yet to be understood. What  were its main successes and failures? And what does the  dramatic change of events, with Brazil moving from a  pivotal player to an almost invisible one in merely half a  decade, tell us about South-South cooperation? These are  some of the questions that Brazil-Africa Relations in the  21st Century - From Surge to Downturn and Beyond intends to  answer in order to provide a useful resource for Political  Science and International Relations scholars interested in  the study of South-South relations, as well as for policy  makers interested in understanding the changing dynamics of  International Relations in the wake of the 21st century.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1432090},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55720-1},
}