BRAZILIAN FOREIGN POLICY, INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY TRANSFER AND PEACE MISSIONS: A STUDY OF MINUSTAH CASE (2004 - 2017)
The objective of this research is to analyze the use of Brazilian social public policies as a resource of Brazilian foreign policy applied to the context parallel to MINUSTAH (2004-2017), in order to understand how the domestic agenda can be articulated to the logic of international cooperation to promote economic and social development. The research aims to answer the following problem: to what extent has the international transfer of public policies to Haiti, as an international cooperation action in a situation parallel to the peace keeping mission, contributed to Brazil's international insertion process within the UN framework? The hypothesis is that the Brazilian State used the window of opportunity opened by MINUSTAH to strengthen relations with Haiti and transfer public social policies to the Caribbean country as a way to demonstrate its capacity to deal with the primary causes that normally generate conflicts, such as poverty and misery – a foreign policy experience that turned Haiti into one of the main destinations of Brazilian cooperation at the time, which demonstrates a particular way in which Brazil dealt with United Nations peace operations. The research used the process tracing method to map the phenomenon, associated with case study and document analysis methodologies, in addition to the semi-structured discursive interview technique.