Abstract

MEDEIROS, Marcelo de Almeida; HENRIQUES, Anna Beatriz Leite; ROCHA, Felipe Ferreira de Oliveira  and  OLIVEIRA, Eduardo Matos. Political parties, regional integration and ideology: an analysis of the discursive support to UNASUR in the Brazilian Congress. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2021, n.72, pp.77-97.  Epub Dec 31, 2021. ISSN 1645-9199.  https://doi.org/10.23906/ri2021.72a05.

The main goal of this article is to investigate whether the party orientation (right-left) of Brazilian Congressmen somehow influenced their discursive support to UNASUR from 2000 to 2020. To achieve this, the first section performs a literature review about the relation between regional integration initiatives and the ideological orientation of political parties. The second part of the article exposes its methodological aspects and discriminates all the steps taken to do the discourse analysis. Finally, the last session presents the results which, corroborating the majoritarian argument of the existing literature, attest that left-wing parties tend to speak more positively about regional integration, while right-wing parties tend to speak less and more negatively about the same object.

Keywords : regional integration; party ideology; discourse; UNASUR.

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