Next Steps in Brazil

Posted: August 26th, 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.

The Olympic Games have come to an end – without a major hitch – and now Brazil must once again face its internal issues: a political crisis threatening to oust suspended President Dilma Rousseff and an economy that has been on the downturn for quite some time. 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.

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