Clashing frames: human rights and foreign policy in the Brazilian re-democratization process

Abstract This article deals with the use of rights in the Brazilian foreign policy in the late 1970s. Two main arguments are advanced: there was a novel understanding of rights that clashed with the traditional statist one, and the Brazilian strategies were less a complete rebuttal of rights languag...

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Main Author: João Henrique Roriz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais 2017-11-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-73292017000100218&lng=en&tlng=en