Description
This research affiliates to Global(-ized) IR as it diversifies traditional and nationally-produced Brazilian Foreign Policy literature by underscoring new patterns from BFP historiography. A foreign policy in exile can be defined based on Edward Said’s concept of exile. In exile, the thinker adopts viewpoints that accuse a stratified system of producing marginalizing hierarchies, while voicing the belief that the exiled is more capable of grasping said stratified reality and of thus forging solutions that are more compatible and representative of such realities. This article argues that the BFP discourse before the UN has historically been in exile even in times of military authoritarianism. Aiming to figure out the extent to which exile has pervaded BFP, the Brazilian discourse before the UN, particularly its speeches, is compared throughout those military administrations and the preceding Independent Foreign Policy from which the dictatorship claimed to break away. It is therefore concluded that a FP in exile stems from a militant thought that pervades foreign policy that portray a militant identity against a so-called frozen structure within the international system at the same time as they yield proposals that while revamping said structure, offer solutions that are supposedly more representative and hence more effective in for Global South realities.