Guilherme Fenício Alves Macedo

Revisiting the Political-Bureaucratic Model of Decision-Making Analysis: The Case of the Creation of the South American Defense Council (CDS) and Brazilian Foreign Policy during the Second Lula Administration

Objective/Context: Security concerns in South America have been a central agenda item in regional political dialogue, thereby shaping state behavior as governments, faced with structural and conjunctural factors, establish alliances or instruments of cooperation in the field of defense. Given this agenda’s relevance, f...