Paraguay's Foreign Policy and Mercosur's External Agenda: Data Collection, Management, and Analysis

• Grant number: 25/13692-5
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2025
• End date: November 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Principal Investigator: Guilherme Augusto Guimarães Ferreira
• Grantee: Guilherme Augusto Guimarães Ferreira
• Host Institution: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Osasco. Osasco , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Osasco
• Associated research grant: 24/13017-3 - THE POLITICS OF SMALL STATES: Paraguay, Uruguay and Mercosur's external agenda, AP.R
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/27412-4 - Paraguay's Foreign Policy and Mercosur's External Agenda: Data Collection, Management, and Analysis, BP.IC

Abstract

The project examines how Mercosur is integrated into Paraguay's foreign policy strategies and seeks to understand, through the lens of Small States theory, how Paraguayan governments have influenced Mercosur's so-called external agenda. The undergraduate research assistant will be responsible for building and managing a structured database on Paraguay's actions within the bloc, applying categorization protocols and conducting descriptive and exploratory analyses focused on key themes and priority agendas. The student will also develop data visualizations and analytical reports. In the end, the database will be made available in an open-access repository, ensuring the research's replicability and contributing to future studies in the field. (AU)