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Brazil

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of Brazil, including politics under Lula, Jair Bolsonaro’s legacy, domestic and foreign policy issues, the future of the Amazon, and more.

Editor’s Pick

ISSUE: July/August 2022

Can Brazil Turn Back the Clock?

Latin America’s Nostalgia Trap and the Return of Lula

Brian Winter

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What Happened to Lula?

Latin America Is Stronger Together

David Adler, Guillaume Long

In Defense of the Fence Sitters

The Restoration of Brazilian Foreign Policy

Hussein Kalout, Feliciano Guimarães

How Brazil Can Prevent an Authoritarian Resurgence

Benjamin H. Bradlow, Mohammad Ali Kadivar

What Lula’s Return Means for the Amazon

How Bolsonaro Might Win—Even If He Loses

What If Bolsonaro Won’t Go?

Oliver Stuenkel

Can Brazil Turn Back the Clock?

Democracy Is Dying in Brazil

Oliver Stuenkel

Amazônia

Richard Feinberg

Beef, Bible, and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro

Richard Feinberg

Has Bolsonaro Truly Gone Green?

The Resurgence of the Rest

Latin America’s Lost Decades

Luis Alberto Moreno

Latin America’s COVID-19 Nightmare

Diana Enriquez, Sebastián Rojas Cabal, Miguel A. Centeno

Messiah Complex

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon’s Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

Andrew Moravcsik

Bolsonaro Made Brazil a Pandemic Pariah

Catherine Osborn

The Secret to a Safe Reopening

Josh Michaud, Jen Kates

The COVID-19 Crisis in Emerging Markets Demands a Once-in-a-Century Response

Latin America’s Prison Gangs Draw Strength From the Pandemic

The Amazon Is Nearing the Point of No Return

Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God

Richard Feinberg

The Amazon Comes to Rome

Why Latin America Was Primed to Explode

Moisés Naím, Brian Winter

Bolsonaro Fans the Flames

Oliver Stuenkel

The Dictators’ Last Stand

Huawei Heads South

Oliver Stuenkel

Emerging Markets Aren’t Out of the Woods Yet

Agustín Carstens, Hyun Song Shin

How Evangelical Conservatives Are Gaining Power in Brazil

Chayenne Polimédio

False Flags

Jan-Werner Müller

How South America Ceded the Field in Venezuela

Oliver Stuenkel

Brazil's Foreign Minister Wants to Save the West From Postmodernism

The Ghosts of Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

Kenneth P. Serbin

Trumpism Comes to Brazil

Roberto Simon, Brian Winter

Women for Bolsonaro

Chayenne Polimédio

The Decline and Fall of Brazil’s Political Establishment

Will Brazil’s Next President Be a Far-Right Nationalist?

Will Brazil's Crackdown on Corruption Continue?

Eduardo Mello, Matias Spektor

Acting Globally: Memoirs of Brazil’s Assertive Foreign Policy; Rethinking Global Democracy in Brazil

Richard Feinberg

After Lula’s Corruption Conviction

Brazil’s Best Shot Against Corruption

The Case for Lula

Geoffrey Robertson

Brazil’s Never-Ending Corruption Crisis

A Good Neighbor Policy for Trump

José R. Cárdenas

Brazil’s Correctional Houses of Horror

César Muñoz Acebes

Brazil's Generation of Discontent

Catherine Osborn

How to Fix Brazil

Eduardo Mello, Matias Spektor

Olympic Hurdles

Bridges to Nowhere

Christopher Sabatini

Temer’s Victory in Brazil

Argentina and Brazil Grow Together

Shannon K. O'Neil

Brazil Cuts Down on Deforestation

Patricia Nogueira-Neidlinger

Will Temer End the Crisis in Brazil?

Brazil's Next President?

Brazil's Pocket Linings Playbook

Nationalization and Its Discontents

Rousseff on the Ropes

Brazil's Foreign Policy Failures

Brazil’s Antipoverty Breakthrough

Jonathan Tepperman

Antonio Patriota on Brazil

Mexico, the Next Brazil?

Geert Aalbers, Nick Panes

From Bad to Worse for Rousseff

Brazil's Cybercrime Problem

Robert Muggah, Nathan Thompson

Not Your Land

Democracy, Brazil Style

Kathryn Hochstetler

Prisoner's Dilemma

Budgets for the People

Paolo Spada, Hollie Russon Gilman

Nothing but the Truth

Kathryn Sikkink, Bridget Marchesi

More Change, More Future

Kathryn Hochstetler

It's a Jungle Out There

Net Gain

Stacie L. Pettyjohn

Foreign Policy Goes Local

Rodrigo Tavares

Open Source, Open World

Rising Tide: Is Growth in Emerging Markets Good for the United States?

Richard N. Cooper

Breaking the Silence in Brazil

Emma Sokoloff-Rubin

#MudaBrasil

Kathryn Hochstetler

From Brazil to Wikipedia

Reelect Rousseff

So Long, Chávez

Michael Shifter

A Light in the Forest

Brazil’s Legal Education

Broken BRICs

How Busted Is Brazil?

Shannon K. O'Neil, Richard Lapper, Larry Rohter, Ronaldo Lemos, Ruchir Sharma

Bearish on Brazil

Why Foxconn's iPad Deal is Wrong for Brazil

Globalizing the Energy Revolution

Michael Levi, Elizabeth Economy, Shannon K. O'Neil, Adam Segal

A New Global Player

Irresponsible Stakeholders?

Stewart Patrick

Not Ready for Prime Time

Jorge G. Castañeda

Brazil’s Big Moment

The Reluctant Partner

Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues

Trandsotming Brazil: A Reform Era in Perspective

Kenneth Maxwell

Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil

Kenneth Maxwell

Lula's Brazil

John Williamson

Futebol: Soccer the Brazilian Way

Kenneth Maxwell

Beyond Racism: Race and Inequality in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States

Gail M. Gerhart

Charting a New Course: The Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation

Kenneth Maxwell

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