Brazil on a Global Stage

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Brazil on a Global Stage
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Agenda

• Foreign Policy
• Military
• Trade Organizations
• Global Trade
• Activism
• Industry Statistics
• Nuclear Program
• Sports (Olympics/World Cup)

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Foreign Policy

• Brazilian political leaders believe that Brazil
  should have a larger role in foreign politics
• This has led to greater involvement in
  organizations, such as the U.N. 10th largest
  contributor to UN budget (38M)
• This approach allows participation in world
  events without taking a hard stance on divisive
  issues.
• Regionally, Brazil is active in South American
  politics through the UNASUL (Union of South
  American Nations) 12 member nations (all of the
  South American nations)
• Has 8 ministerial councils in place to
  collaborate on topics such as defense, energy,
  education, economics, and infrastructure.

http//www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/en
glish.brazil.foreignpolicy.pdf http//en.wikipedia
.org/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations
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Military

• Brazil's armed forces are the largest in Latin
  America, with
• 327,710 active-duty troops and officers (US has
  1.47M Columbia has 285,220).
• 27B 2011 defense budget (US 663B Columbia
  9.2B).
• Recent history
• Fought for allied forces in WWII.
• Coup detat in 64-85 military regime aligned
  with US.
• No serious internal/external threats to
  sovereignty.

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Military

• Mission
• SIPAM Sistema de Proteção da Amazônia
  (Amazonian Protection System)
• Blue water
• President sent 800 army soldiers to the Alemão
  shanty-town village to take control from drug
  gangs (41 death toll).
• "Estratégia Nacional de Defesa" (National Defense
  Strategy)

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Trade Organizations

• Foreign Minister Celso Amorim
• "If you want to have Brazil, India, China, South
  Africa participating in the effort they have to
  have more voice also in these financial
  institutions.
• the G20 was not born in Cancún or in Geneva,
  during the weeks preceding the WTO Ministerial
  Conference. It emerged from the political trust
  built up between Brazil, India and South Africa
  some months earlier.
• Advocacy for developing agricultural nations
• Brazil used leadership role in WTO and FTAA to
  organize opposition toward developed nations to
  grant concessions to poorer countries.
• Organized opposition against US and European farm
  subsidies.

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Global Trade

• Brazil an active world trader
• World Trade Organization member since 1995
• Accounts for 5 of the worlds agricultural
  exports (3rd largest in the world)
• Strengthening currency has made Brazilian goods
  more expensive on foreign markets

Source World Trade Organization 2010 Trade
Statistics http//www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis
_e/its2010_e/its2010_e.pdf Financial Times,
January 30, 2011, http//www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/
5efdeffc-2c99-11e0-83bd-00144feab49a.html The
Economist, January 14th, 2012, http//www.economis
t.com/node/21542780
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Global Trade

• Trade With China
• Grown over 1,600 since 2002
• Brazil has a trade surplus
• China accounts for 35 of Foreign Direct
  Investment in Brazil
• President Rousseff is becoming more
  protectionist, evidenced by a 30 tax on cars
  made with less than 65 Brazilian content

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Trade w/China
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Activism

• Domestic Hunger Activism
• Fome Zero, a domestic hunger program, founded in
  2001.
• José Graziano da Silva - appointed head of the
  Ministry of Food Security and Hunger Combat
  (MESA) created by former president Lula.
• A vast array of 50 policies, including everything
  from low-cost restaurants to financial assistance
  for small farmers and microcredit
• Program is very successful, reducing hunger in
  Brazil by 1/3 in 4 years.

Sources Fome Zero Report, www.fomezero.gov.br/dow
nload/Security20Policy20OK.pdf Oxfam.org
Report, http//www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/f
iles/cs-fighting-hunger-brazil-090611-en.pdf http
//online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303795304
576455941812569416.html
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Activism

• International Activism
• In 2011, José Graziano da Silva elected to lead
  the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
  the UN
• Da Silva plans to use many of the successful
  aspects from Fome Zero at the FAO, such as
• Cross-sector approach, involving the private
  sector, government and civil-society for wide
  support

Sources Fome Zero Report, www.fomezero.gov.br/dow
nload/Security20Policy20OK.pdf Oxfam.org
Report, http//www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/f
iles/cs-fighting-hunger-brazil-090611-en.pdf http
//online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303795304
576455941812569416.html
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Industry Statistics

• 5th Largest Labor Pool after China, India, US,
  Indonesia
• Revenues from international tourists reached US
  5.9B in 2010. -gt 0.28 of GDP or 0.41 of the
  service sector
• Largest producer of sugar cane in the world
• Worlds largest exporter of beef and second
  largest beef producer after the US
• Worlds largest coffee producer, responsible for
  about a third of all coffee in the world
• Worlds largest soybean exporter (39). Second
  largest soybean producer (27)

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Nuclear Program

• Between 1970-1990, there was fear that Brazil was
  using its nuclear energy program to support
  nuclear weapon development. Brazil has the
  resources necessary to develop a nuclear weapon
• In early 1990s, Brazil renounced its interest in
  nuclear weapons as evident by the following
  commitments
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
• Agreement of nuclear safeguard with the
  International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Signed the Treat for the Prohibition of Nuclear
  Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean,
  Treaty of Tlatelolco
• Signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  (CTBT), Joined the Missile Technology Control
  Regime (MTCR)
• Established a bilateral inspection agency with
  Argentina to verify nuclear is being used for
  peaceful purposes, the Brazilian-Argentine Agency
  for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials
  (ABACC)

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Sports

• Brazil to host the 2016 Summer Olympics
• 205 Countries represented
• Approximately 10,500 Athletes
• 28 Olympics Sports
• 18 Major Venues
• A Carbon Neutral Games
• Some controversy ahead of the Games
• Brazilian housing authority has been bulldozing
  favelas to make way for new transportation routes
  and land development.
• Recently Rio 2016 officials were considering
  erecting a 30 foot replica Christ the Redeemer
  in Primrose Hill in London to promote the 2016
  Games

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Sports

• World Cup 2014 in Brazil
• Brazil is the only country to participate in the
  17 World Cups
• Brazil has 5 championships (1958, 1962, 1970,
  1994, 2002)
• Tied with Germany for the most finishes in the
  top 2
• Pelé
• World famous soccer player in Brazil
• Scored 760 official goals, top scorer of all time
• Known as The King of Football in Brazil