Reputation and peacekeeping missions

Brazil and middle powers in challenging times

Resumo

International law has been barely focused on the reputational status,
which may be represented as a complex of attributes based on the
perception of the others, that can determine the state’s position in the
international arena and cooperation scenarios. Thus, the opportunity
of taking an active role in the international agenda makes Brazil and
other middle powers and emerging markets as high-value partners,
with an increasing and representative participation in international
organizations in the last years. In respect to the Brazilian case, those
functions that can be cited as determinants of reputation range from
the peacekeeping mandates it has detained, to the candidacy as a
permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. This
paper is focused on providing a conceptual framework to explain
the enhancing of one actor’s international reputation based on
Peacekeeping missions and considering Andrew Guzman´s typology
(2001; 2010; 2011). This theme is an important way of thinking
political gains in terms of international competition not only because
it elucidates states’ conditions for obtaining success but, also, how
eligible they are for projecting themselves besides military strength.
In addition, the effectiveness and compliance ratio, either for the
Brazilian case or other emerging markets, are not clear to a great part
of the analysts. So, under the soft or hard law, the intention is to make
an archeology of the reputation model that is connected to political
gains in the Brazilian contemporary case, as to expand its international
reliability and promote economic odds.