Brazil's role in democratising global governance

• Grant number: 14/18584-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Political Science - International Politics
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: João Paulo Cândia Veiga
• Grantee: Markus Fraundorfer
• Host Institution: Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Despite an increasing scholarly interest in the efforts of emerging democracies to promote democratic values abroad, the existing international debate has not paid sufficient attention to the efforts of these emerging powers to democratise global governance mechanisms. Instead, scholars have either concentrated on the role of civil society actors as a driving force for more democratic global governance. Or they equated the democratic efforts of emerging powers in the international system with interventionism.This project will argue that a specific focus on Brazil will shed new light on the role of a democratic emerging power in global governance. The analysis will concentrate on Brazil's activities to promote more inclusive and democratically informed global governance mechanisms in various areas of global governance including internet governance, food security and fiscal transparency. Departing from the most basic characteristics of the theoretical concept of global democracy which emphasises the essential importance of civil society participation in global governance mechanisms and the promotion of human rights, this project is an attempt to find out if Brazil's "democratic performance" in the mechanisms of global governance can tell us more about how to conceive of global democracy both in theoretical and empirical terms. As a further scope, this project attempts to further develop the "Western"-dominated concept of global democracy through the inclusion of a non-"Western" perspective and hopes to offer new answers to the question if emerging powers like Brazil can offer an alternative to the democratisation strategies of the established powers. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FRAUNDORFER, MARKUS. The Rediscovery of Indigenous Thought in the Modern Legal System: The Case of the Great Apes. GLOBAL POLICY, v. 9, n. 1, p. 17-25, FEB 2018. (14/18584-1)

FRAUNDORFER, MARKUS. How to Confront the Threat of Ebola? Arguing for Reinforced Efforts to Promote Transnational Solidarity. GLOBAL POLICY, v. 7, n. 3, p. 340-350, SEP 2016. (14/18584-1)

FRAUNDORFER, MARKUS. The Open Government Partnership: Mere Smokescreen or New Paradigm?. GLOBALIZATIONS, v. 14, n. 4, p. 611-626, 2017. (14/18584-1)

FRAUNDORFER, MARKUS. The Role of Cities in Shaping Transnational Law in Climate Governance. GLOBAL POLICY, v. 8, n. 1, p. 23-31, FEB 2017. (14/18584-1)