Acknowledging the increasing pressure to reverse the relatively isolationist paradigm of Brazilian foreign policy making, as well as its current broad domestic repercussion, this article seeks to: (a) analyze the factors, both domestic and international, that, since the return to democracy and the systemic changes caused by the end of the Cold War, have pressured the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty) to overcome its isolation; and (b) evaluate the instruments that have been used by Itamaraty for the promotion of intra-governmental policy coordination (within the Executive Branch) and intergovernmental (between the federal executive and state governments), as well as inter-sector coordination (federal government and social actors), in the formulation of the country's foreign policy.
Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (Itamaraty); Brazilian Foreign Policy; Isolation; Intra-governmental, Intergovernmental and Inter-sector Coordination