Brazilian external policy and media: the media diplomacy in the Dilma impeachment crisis (2016)

摘要

In analyzing the performance of the media in recent political and social phenomena, it is possible to say that the press has played a prominent role in international dialogues. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Brazilian government realized the importance of investing in new foreign policy practices, especially from the modification of the diplomatic exercise that included the communication vehicles as an important tool. It is within this perspective that this article intends to analyze the use of media diplomacy in the Dilma government (2011-2016) during the crisis that motivated its impeachment, based on the theoretical reflections of the areas of International Relations and Communication, as well as the information available in the institutional channels of the Brazilian government, in order to assess the extent to which the resource was used by the State.