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The paper has two parts. The first one "Brazil in the Global System" summarizes the most important dynamics in the Brazilian society in the last two decades. The second part "The evolving Brazilian role in the global politics of climate" analyses the Brazilian standing in the negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol (1996-2001) showing how Amazonian deforestation shaped deeply alliances of Brazil and finish analyzing the progress toward a more responsible regional and global position in the recent period. The paper argue there is a good possibility of a change in Brazilian position after a moving in the American position with the next president. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new landmark for international cooperation is likely to emerge on the next two years of climate change discussions, and the result could be the reverse of tropical deforestation worldwide, which should benefit present and future generations. On the last ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil will gain a place as a significant player in the multi-polar international system taking shape since the end of the Cold War simply on the basis of its economic size and material capabilities. However, its potential to influence international outcomes is likely to be determined more by the capacity of the country's elites to identify and harness qualitative assets associated with its stable and democratic governance than by any hard power assets. Brazil is the quintessential soft power BRIC. Among the four BRICs, Brazil is the only one positioned to become a potential environmental power in a world increasingly preoccupied with global warming. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The interrelated nature of science, power and culture is subject to a ?conceptual silence? in common discourses related to science and politics in general and in large segments of the social sciences. International relations literature is no exception: this literature as well gives scant attention to the issue of legitimacy, and in particular the role of scientific legitimacy in global environmental politics. Instead, the ?erosion-of-sovereignty? literature has tended to focus on the issues of autonomy and control, categories that are less mediated by perception and hence easier objects of study for international relations scholars (ibid.). These silences in the social science literature about the challenge science poses to state control are startling given that science is a prime, powerful and persistent factor effecting transformation within and between nations. This paper seeks to fill some of these gaps through a case study of Brazil, with central focus on national anxieties in relationship to the Amazon and international science. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to address the difficulties of understanding between countries on courses of action regarding the regime of Climate Change, focusing the position of Japan and Germany on one hand and Brazil and India on the other, in the process that has ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]