Brazil’s Emerging Role in Global Governance [electronic resource] : Health, Food Security and Bioenergy /
Fraundorfer, M.author.
The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade in the sectors of health, food security and bioenergy, this book sheds light on the power strategies of an emerging country from the global south.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; a) The research puzzle; b) The sectoral dimension of global governance; c) The organisation of the book; 2 Theoretical Considerations; a) Characterising global governance; b) The multiple dimensions of power; c) The concept of social interface; d) The concept of narrative; e) The concept of nodal governance; 3 Brazil's Global Fight against HIV/AIDS; a) Characterising global health governance; b) Brazil's National AIDS Programme; c) The discursive interface; d) The organisational interface
e) The resource-transfer interface4 Brazil's Global Fight against Hunger and Poverty; a) Characterising the global system of food security; b) Brazil's Zero Hunger strategy; c) The discursive interface; d) The organisational interface; e) The resource-transfer interface; 5 Brazil's Production of Sugarcane-Based Ethanol; a) Characterising global bioenergy governance; b) Brazil's production of ethanol; c) The discursive interface; d) The organisational interface; e) The resource-transfer interface; 6 Conclusion; a) Exercising power in global sectoral governance; b) Future research
Appendix: List of InterviewsNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade in the sectors of health, food security and bioenergy, this book sheds light on the power strategies of an emerging country from the global south.
Political economy.
Environmental policy.
International relations.
Sociology.
Development economics.
Globalization.
International Political Economy.
Environmental Politics.
International Relations.
Sociology, general.
Development Economics.
Globalization.