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Abstract Many important studies associate the presidential profile of Dilma Rousseff to the loss of domestic density and reach of Brazil’s foreign policy, a perspective not yet confirmed by psychological mechanisms of leadership behavior in foreign policy. We offer a contribution by exploring the Leadership Trait Analysis framework with which personality concepts and comparisons between Brazilian presidents are examined. Our main findings reveal that Rousseff has leadership traits in close proximity to the average of Brazilian presidents, although her distinctions on “respecting constrains” and “focusing on causes” style mirror much of the impressions raised by the literature over her presidency.

This paper analyses legislative behavior in foreign policy issues in six Latin-American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. The following paper offers an empirical contribution to understand legislative voting in international affairs. The hypothesis of the specificity of foreign policy influencing a unified legislative behavior, contrasted with a highly polarized domestic arena, is tested. To develop this test we estimate Latina-American legislator’s ideal points in foreign policy issues, comparing ours results with studies that examine legislative behavior in domestic issues. The conclusions suggest similarity between legislative behaviors in both arenas, indicating as main explanatory factors of legislative voting in foreign policy political party’s ideology and the legislative coalition of legislator’s political party.

Abstract Which factors determine legislative support for the foreign policy initiatives of Latin American presidents? How do political parties and politicians behave when dealing with presidential foreign policy? The issue of whether presidents exercise greater influence over foreign or domestic affairs has been extensively debated in recent years, and the evidence indicates that legislators do behave differently when dealing with foreign policy proposals. Building on this debate, we analyse legislative support for the foreign policies of 22 Latin-American presidents in eight countries from 1994 to 2014, using an original dataset in a quantile regression framework. We also use three selected cases to illustrate our evidence. Our findings are counter-intuitive and bring new elements into the debate about legislative behaviour towards foreign policy in presidential countries. Measures of a political party's ideology, the size of the governing coalition, and the effective number of parties (ENP) play important roles in levels of legislative support for presidential foreign policy agendas. Surprisingly, the popularity of presidents and the nature of their initiatives - high or low politics - do not affect these levels of support.

No presente artigo argumenta-se que os padrões de votações em temas de política externa no Brasil e Reino Unido são estruturados a partir da dicotomia entre o governo e a oposição. Rejeita-se a ideia da influência das distintas naturezas da política externa e política doméstica no comportamento legislativo. Ao contrário, por meio da utilização da estimação de pontos ideais, demonstra-se que o voto legislativo em temas domésticos e internacionais é extremamente semelhante, estruturados pelo controle de agenda por parte dos Poderes Executivos no Brasil e Reino Unido. Adicionalmente, alguns indícios da ocorrência de voto estratégico em temas internacionais são exibidos. Legisladores podem apoiar ou não as propostas legislativas do governo independentemente de suas preferências políticas.

O trabalho busca analisar as relações entre o Brasil e a China no período de 2000 a 2012. Também, verifica em que medida a ascensão da China se relaciona com dois objetivos estratégicos da política externa brasileira contemporânea, quais sejam, o fortalecimento da cooperação e da integração com os países da América do Sul e o estreitamento das relações com os países africanos.