중남미

The concluding section of this book discusses the importance of understanding the differences between Brazil’s status aspirations and the level of prestige it gets from an external intersubjective perspective. Although the country seems to face barriers to rise and break through the international status quo, the analysis of the foreign perceptions of its status provides a very important point of reference that can help guide foreign policy decisions in its search for prestige. The way Brazil has been pursuing status seems from the outside not to be effective, and a more consistent and clear agenda taking this into account could help the state pursue its interests with more chances of making them become real. If the country decides to continue its pursuit of high status, following what can be learned from the perception of the FPC of great powers, Brazil should focus less on trying to gain status and more on actions that gradually put the state in the centre of important matters of international politics. Instead of inflating the rhetoric, Brazil should focus on stabilizing domestic issues and developing its economy, leaving an expansion of its international role to be a consequence of this development.