South Africa's President Jacob Zuma (C) poses for photos with Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff (L) and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the end of the fifth India-Brazil-South Africa summit (IBSA) in Pretoria (REUTERS/Elmond Jiyane).

Report

Democracy, Human Rights and the Emerging Global Order

April 2013, Ted Piccone

The Brookings Institution’s Managing Global Order project convened a two-day workshop to discuss emerging trends in international support for democracy and human rights and the increasingly complex drivers shaping foreign policies. Bringing together policy makers and experts from emerging and established democratic powers at Greentree, the workshop identified areas of convergence and divergence in foreign policy priorities, methods, and discourse, and extrapolated implications for the evolving global order.

  • In the News

    [Roberto Azevêdo] knows how the system works, how to get a deal done. But he has been saddled by the positions that he has had to take as Brazil’s ambassador. During the Doha round Brazil has not always been the most constructive contributor.

    April 26, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, Financial Times
  • In the News

    [There is] a very serious effort to really pull [the BRICS nations] together despite the differences and differing interests. Yes, it will be difficult to put the [new development] bank in place. It will take a lot of time to accumulate the capital.

    March 27, 2013, Colin I. Bradford, Bloomberg
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    There is no such thing as U.S. economy or Brazilian economy, but an interconnection of metropolitan areas. Three factors are necessary for them to be successful: infrastructure, education, innovation.

    November 30, 2012, Bruce Katz, Valor Econômico (Portuguese)
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