ABSTRACT
Brazil has been one of the most active countries in South-South cooperation over the past two decades. A significant feature of Brazilian cooperation policy has been its wide coverage, in both geographical and sectorial terms. Brazilian development cooperation operates in a large number of countries – within its regional environment, but also far from Latin America, especially in Sub-Saharan and Lusophone Africa and its development programmes are implemented across many different thematic areas. At the same time, from an operational point of view, Brazilian development cooperation adopts very different mechanisms and tools, both technical and financial, and it operates through bilateral, triangular, or regional modalities. Moreover, Brazil has channelled a large part of its cooperation policy through multilateral organisations and has established relevant alliances with other emerging countries. In this context, the purpose of reforming the major multilateral organisations and the search for greater international projection have led Brazil to establish South-South coalitions with other emerging countries that have shown little interest in building an alternative system for international governance. This chapter analyses how the character of Brazil’s development cooperation is strongly linked to domestic processes and to its strategic foreign policy framework, with a view to strengthening its regional and global leadership.
