September 2016 Academic & Specialist Ingram Publisher Services International

Geopolitics in the 21st Century

Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence David R. Mares, Harold A. Trinkunas

Geopolitics in the 21st Century

Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence
David R. Mares, Harold A. Trinkunas


Aspirational Power examines Brazil as an emerging power. It explains Brazil’s present emphasis on using soft power through a historical analysis of Brazil’s three past attempts to achieve major power status. Though these efforts have fallen short, this book suggests that Brazil will continue to try to emerge, but that it will only succeed when its domestic institutions provide a solid and attractive foundation for the deployment of its soft power abroad.