Belated Courtship? The Uneasy Partnership between Brazil and the EU

Abstract:

The EU accorded the status of “strategic partner” to Brazil in 2007. While the aim of this was to foster more effective cooperation with the Latin American giant, the record of the partnership is less than clear. While the strategic partnership was a clear acknowledgment of Brazil’s aspirations and status potential, it may have been sealed too late to have an impact on Brazil’s trajectory towards a more prominent global role, and may mean too little for actually changing the course of EU–Brazil relations.