Call for Papers - Specific Themes

CONTESTED GREEN EUROPE: BRAZILIAN RESPONSES TO EU ENVIRONMENTAL NORMS AND EXTERNAL POLICIES
Contexto Internacional Special Issue Guest Editors:
Bruno Theodoro Luciano (UNESP)
Carolina Pavese (Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia)
Gustavo Muller (KU Leuven, Belgium)
 

As the world faces a climate emergency, the structural tensions between countries in the Global North and Global South regarding how to address increasingly divergent normative frameworks on issues such as the environment and human rights are becoming apparent. Furthermore, the climate crisis has exposed the structural inequalities between developed and developing countries. While actors from the Global North, such as the European Union (EU), claim a leadership position in climate governance and sustainable development, countries from the Global South, such as Brazil, have considerably contested the EU's legitimacy as a leader. They have also raised concerns that link the EU's sustainability policies to the unilateralism employed as a protectionist tool. This Special Issue aims to shed conceptual and empirical light on how Global South actors - paying particular attention to the case of Brazil - respond, react or contest the EU’s externalisation of the European Green Deal, by critically examining the implementation of environmental external policies such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). Articles will therefore critically address the human rights, business, gender, and legal aspects of Brazil’s contestation of the EU’s latest external environmental policies. By focusing on how a major Global South country in both the environmental and agriculture agendas such as Brazil responds and contests the EU’s policies in these domains, this Special Issue seeks to improve our understanding of the tools and diplomatic approaches available to non-Western actors in bilateral and multilateral negotiations, and in multilateral forums, to influence the development of norms that better reflect their views and interests.

Submission of abstracts: 16 June
Submission of full paper for accepted abstracts: 30 September

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