This edited volume explores the analytical possibilities of contrasting Brazil and the United Kingdom as examples of emerging and established powers, respectively. It is organised around several themes focusing on the roles of Brazil and the United Kingdom in the management of global economic governance, international development, international security, the politics of regional integration, global climate change governance, and the political leveraging of sports mega-events. Each chapter explores Brazil’s and/or the UK’s particular foreign policies and their resulting impact on these key areas of global governance and politics. The conceptual focus is on these states’ motivations as either status-seekers (Brazil) or status-maintainers (UK) in the context of a fast moving international landscape. The chapters in this book directly or indirectly indicate that these states wish to draw attention to their aspiring or established positions as key global players through either visible foreign policy action and/or symbolic rhetoric. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Society.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Challenges to Emerging and Established Powers: Brazil and the United Kingdom in the Contemporary Global Order Marco Vieira and Jonathan Grix
1. Brazil’s Role in Institutions of Global Economic Governance: The WTO and G20 Mahrukh Doctor
2. Global Economic Governance and the British Economy: From the Gold Standard to the G20 Chris Rogers
3. Organisation and Politics in South–South Cooperation: Brazil’s Technical Cooperation in Africa Adriana Erthal Abdenur
4. DFID, the Private Sector and the Re-centring of an Economic Growth Agenda in International Development Emma Mawdsley
5. Emerging Brazil: The Challenges of Liberal Peace and Global Governance Monica Hirst
6. Three Emerging Security Challenges for the UK Page Wilson
7. Regionalism as an Instrument: Assessing Brazil’s Relations with its Neighbourhood Elena Lazarou and Bruno Theodoro Luciano
8. Europe’s British Question: The UK–EU Relationship in a Changing Europe and Multipolar World Tim Oliver
9. Brazilian Energy-Climate Policy and Politics towards Low Carbon Development Eduardo Viola and Larissa Basso
10. The UK and Emerging Countries in the Climate Regime: Whither Leadership? Sevasti-Eleni Vezirgiannidou
11. Interrogating States’ Soft Power Strategies: A Case Study of Sports Mega-Events in Brazil and the UK Jonathan Grix, Paul Michael Brannagan and Barrie Houlihan
About the Author :
Marco Vieira is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published in leading journals such as Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, Environmental Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis and Global Governance. He is the co-author of The South in World Politics (2010).
Jonathan Grix is a Reader in Sport Policy and Politics in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences and Director of the Sport Policy Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK. His latest books include Sport under Communism. Behind the East German "Miracle" (co-authored with Mike Dennis) (2012); Understanding UK Sport Policy in Context (co-edited with Lesley Phillpots), 2014) and Sport Politics: An Introduction (2016).
