O Brasil no Conselho de Segurança: votações em Resoluções de Capítulo VII (1993-2011)

Abstract

Starting from the general hypothesis that emerging middle powers have differentiated performance on issues involving international security and on issues which are not related to the use of force, this dissertation applies this distinction to the participation of Brazil in the United Nations (UN). To do so, it began with the development of theoretical perspectives on the behavior of emerging countries in international organizations, through games of coordination and balance of power strategies, such as soft balancing. In addition, it exposed a brief overview of the history of the UN and Brazil-United States bilateral relations, as well as Brazil's role in the institution and in other areas of the multilateral system. To analyze the particular hypothesis, the case of Brazil was studied through its votes in the United Nations General Assembly and in the United Nations Security Council, bodies with different members, subjects and institutional design. The methodology employed was quantitative, by the calculation of the Simple Convergence Index between Brazil and the United States of their votes in the General Assembly and in Security Council, during the the post-Cold War period, aimed to observe how Brazil behaves in both cases. These quantitative results based a qualitative analysis effort, based on the specialized literature, to identify possible explanatory reasons for Brazil's insertion in the international system.