Between ideology and pragmatism - Brazi-US relations under the presidencies of Jaír Bolsdonaro and Donald Trump /2019-2020)

Abstract

Relations between United States and Brazil have been marked over the years by phases of greater or lesser rapprochement, distancing or alignment, which can be explained (among other thingas) by different strategies in the foreign policies of both countries. Based on this observation and some conceptual differentiations proposed by Gardini, Gómez Saraiva and Herrman, the text analizes the bilateral relations during the presidencies of Donald Trump and Jaír Bolsonaro (2019 - 2020) in different economic and political areas - trade and investment, space and security, the treatment of Venezuela and relations with China - and asks whether these relaltions confirm the hypothesis of a total break with traditional Brazilian foreign policy under the two outsider presidents Trump y Bolsonaro.