Contenção de Danos? A Interação entre os Poderes Executivo e Legislativo na Política Exterior do Governo Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022)

Abstract

The main theme of this work is the foreign policy implemented by the Jair Bolsonaro government and its foreign ministers Ernesto Araújo and Carlos Franco França between 2019 and 2022 in Brazil. The research falls within the theoretical framework of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), which seeks to understand the domestic factors that influence the outcome of countries' foreign policy in general. The focus was on understanding the actions of the Federal Legislative Branch in relation to the foreign policy actions implemented during the period under analysis. In this sense, in addition to the facts concerning the Bolsonaro administration's own foreign actions, we also sought to understand how the foreign relations and national defense committees of the Chamber of Deputies (CREDN) and the Federal Senate (CRE) acted, given that foreign policy issues pass through the legislature through these committees. In addition to reading bibliographic and secondary sources, the analysis used the methodology of document analysis (primary sources) and, with regard to the committees' work, the formation of a database using the method known as Knowledge Discovery in Data-Bases (KDD). So far, there has been a certain absence in the literature of studies dealing with the actions of the Legislative Branch during this period, something seen as crucial, given its influence on Ernesto Araújo's resignation, a situation that led to a change in the Bolsonaro government's foreign actions. In turn, analysis of the role of the legislature in the Brazilian Foreign Policy is a topic that deserves further research, given the importance of the interaction between Congress and the Presidency of the Republic for national politics. In this study, we started from the hypothesis that the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate of the 56th Legislature (2019-2022) were domestic actors capable of preventing the implementation of certain Brazilian Foreign Policy actions in the period under analysis. This hypothesis was tested using the document analysis method and KDD, which showed that, on the contrary, the actions of the CRE and CREDN were supportive of the federal government, reflecting the ruling majority of both legislative houses in the period.