Foreign policy under Rousseff: change or adjustment?

Resumo

So far in her administration President Rousseff has concentrated on domestic matters and mainly left foreign policy to the bureaucrats — who, João Augusto de Castro Neves points out, are less at odds with each other than they were in the previous administration. But the president has taken a firm stance on human rights that is beginning to transform official rhetoric and has made well-received overtures to the U.S. and China.