Brazil Post-Rousseff

Posted: September 1st, 2016

By Paulo Esteves

Paulo Esteves is Director-General for the Rio-based BRICS Policy Center. He earned his PhD in Political Science from IUPERJ in 2003. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Copenhagen, a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations (IRI, PUC-Rio), and consulted for the UNDP and the state government of Minas Gerais. Esteves was elected member of the executive board ot eh International Studies Association, and has edited (in Portugese) multiple books on international institutions and international relations. Esteves' current research focuses on the convergence between the fields of international security, humanitarianism, and development, as well as the participation of Brazil and other emerging and peripheral countries in the new architecture of international security.

Brazil’s Senate has voted 61-20 to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, finding her guilty of manipulating the country’s budget. Rousseff’s Vice President Michel Temer, who has been the country’s Interim President throughout the impeachment proceedings, will remain President until the end of his term on January 1, 2019. The Cipher Brief’s Kaitlin Lavinder spoke with Paulo Esteves, Director-General of the BRICS Policy Center in Rio de Janeiro, about the next steps in Brazilian politics and the economy. This is an updated version of an interview with Esteves that ran on August 26, 2016.

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