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Résumé anglais |
During the 20th century, Brazil developed an active cultural diplomacy in order to defend its economic and geostrategic interests on the global chessboard. Beginning in the 1920s, the Brazilian Foreign Office – Itamaraty – mapped out tools for pragmatic cultural promotion, the contents and structures of which fluctuated depending on the actors, political regimes and conceptions of national identity. A first synthesis on the subject, this article studies the genesis of Brazilian cultural diplomacy, considering its institutions, recipients and targets, and reflects upon the meaning of cultural politics for a middle power of the Western world. |
