1) The seminar "Challenges to Brazil's Foreign Policy in a Changing World" was organized in 2012 by the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee (CREDN) and the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) to revisit issues discussed a decade prior.
2) The first decade of the 21st century saw many global changes like the War on Terror, China's rise, commodity terms of trade shifts, the 2008 financial crisis, and developing country growth recovery. These are reshaping the global economic and political system.
3) This publication compiles the discussions from the seminar to better