Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development
Abstract This article explores the challenges of multilateral forums to form coherent ‘strategic narratives’ that align positively with foreign policy narratives of member states in a multi-stakeholder society. Specifically, it focuses on whether and how BRICS’s communication on the issue of infrast...
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| description | Abstract This article explores the challenges of multilateral forums to form coherent ‘strategic narratives’ that align positively with foreign policy narratives of member states in a multi-stakeholder society. Specifically, it focuses on whether and how BRICS’s communication on the issue of infrastructural development is strategically aligned with Brazil’s foreign policy narrative towards Africa. The case study involves interview data from 2016 with non-state actors in Brazil. This empirical case highlights how narrative misalignment on the national and multilateral level results from a high degree of ambiguity in the narratives, their problematic relation to actual events, and faulty practices of ‘inclusive’ participation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33a1300c61bd4d7ea3f54f237bdca14e2022-12-21T21:17:12ZengInstituto Brasileiro de Relações InternacionaisRevista Brasileira de Política Internacional1983-312162110.1590/0034-7329201900110S0034-73292019000100210Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural developmentCarolijn van NoortAbstract This article explores the challenges of multilateral forums to form coherent ‘strategic narratives’ that align positively with foreign policy narratives of member states in a multi-stakeholder society. Specifically, it focuses on whether and how BRICS’s communication on the issue of infrastructural development is strategically aligned with Brazil’s foreign policy narrative towards Africa. The case study involves interview data from 2016 with non-state actors in Brazil. This empirical case highlights how narrative misalignment on the national and multilateral level results from a high degree of ambiguity in the narratives, their problematic relation to actual events, and faulty practices of ‘inclusive’ participation.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-73292019000100210&lng=en&tlng=enBrazilBRICSForeign PolicyNon-State ActorsStrategic Narratives |
| spellingShingle | Carolijn van Noort Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional Brazil BRICS Foreign Policy Non-State Actors Strategic Narratives |
| title | Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development |
| title_full | Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development |
| title_fullStr | Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development |
| title_short | Seeking strategic narrative alignment: the case of BRICS and Brazil on the issue of infrastructural development |
| title_sort | seeking strategic narrative alignment the case of brics and brazil on the issue of infrastructural development |
| topic | Brazil BRICS Foreign Policy Non-State Actors Strategic Narratives |
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