Burges, SeanDaudelin, Jean2015-05-062015-05-06http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13389This chapter examines the ebbs and flows of pressure to democratize Brazil’s foreign policy and their implications for Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Itamaraty, which claims a monopoly over the formulation and practice of the country’s diplomacy. We hold distinct the questions of the democratic character of Brazilian foreign policy and the extent to which it is monopolized by Itamaraty (Lopes, 2013). Just as a state’s monopoly over the means of violence tells us little about a country’s democratic nature, the monopolization of diplomacy by a foreign ministry provides scant insight into the character of a country’s foreign policy.Research for this paper supported by Australian Research Council grant# DE120100401.Australian Research Council25 pages© Sean Burges© Daudelin, JeanBrazilforeign policydemocracyinternational relationspolitical sciencemonopoly2013-0210.13140/RG.2.1.5103.0567