A identidade da política externa brasileira em dois momentos: governos Temer (2016-2018) e Bolsonaro (2019-2022) avaliados por uma ótica pós-estruturalista

Abstract

The objective of this work is to evaluate how the governments of Michel Temer (2016-2018) and Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) used discourse as a tool to reformulate Brazilian foreign policy and its identity. To understand this period of six years in Brazil in which two governments were in power, this work aims to analyze the official speeches and narrative in each government, based on the post-structuralist theoretical-methodological model of Lene Hansen (2006). This stipulates four components for the discursive and intertextual study of foreign policy: 1) numbers of actors, presidents, and their foreign ministers; 2) types of text, official speeches; 3) temporal perspective, delimited between the years 2016 to 2022; and 4) number of events, focused on the restructuring of PEB. The discursive intertextuality for both presidents was based on general principles of Brazil's international relations, both consolidated in the constitution and in the bibliography of the area. Their similarities are present in the restructuring of foreign policy and in their identity, contours being driven by the interests of governments and the interventions of key people within politics. In the same way, their differences are highlighted: while Temer uses traditionalism as the basis of his narrative and identity, Bolsonaro is against these norms and opts for a different path by distancing himself.