ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the Brazil is merely reproducing traditional interventions by other kinds of intervention of its own. It suggests that International Relations analysts must resist the temptation to simplify reality by adopting exclusive categories. Brazil aims to provide an alternative perspective to liberal peacebuilding: one that challenges the main features of the liberal peace, yet contribute to sustainable peace in Africa. According to postcolonial perspectives, the traditional modus operandi of peacebuilding reproduces colonial practices even after the formal end of empires. Modernization theory projects a sequence of natural and universal developments, through which all cultures or societies have to pass, but whose speed may be accelerated by means of assistance. In line with a postcolonial perspective, Jahn and Buhta argue that peace operations are guided by old modernization theories in which all societies and cultures undergo a natural and universal process of development. Thus, Brazil is located in a liminal and ambiguous position, neither purely Southern nor purely global.
