Brazilian foreign policy does not lack ambition.
At the opening of the G20 meeting, which Brazil chairs, this Thursday (21), the Brazilian chancellor proposed a reform of global governance.
For Brazil, multilateral institutions — read the United Nations (UN) — are not equipped to deal with current challenges.
The question is: when were they?
The UN is only as effective as the understandings that the great powers can — or cannot — establish on any issue.
It is not the UN that creates a world order, but the game of power between large countries.
In this power game, Brazil sees an opposition between the North, united by the military alliance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the South, an area of peace and cooperation, and which will not accept issues being resolved by the military force.
The great conflict today is not between North and South, but basically between a superpower that anchored a world order, the United States (USA), and the rise of a powerful challenger, China.
In the destruction of the order that existed until now — we may or may not like it — that several national actors, such as Russia, or subnational actors, such as Hamas, saw the opportunity to resolve things by force.
Brazil's focus in the G20 presidency, as declared, is the reform of global governance.
In fact, there is no lack of ambition. The problem is the distance from reality.
Source: CNN Brasil
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