The performance of BRICS on the global political-economic scenario: Analyzing Brazil participation from 2010 to 2020

The present research aims to analyze the performance of BRICS in the global political-economic scenario, highlighting the performance of Brazil in the period 2010 to 2020. With this aim in mind, we pay special attention to different Brazilian governmental and political party changes. Initiating from the end of Luis Inácio’s government at 2010, followed by two mandates of Dilma Rousseff from 2011 to 2016, afterwards the interim government of Michel Temer from 2016 to 2018 and by last the Jair Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2020 (with special attention to the last one, the contemporary government). Our research is justified by Brazil’s potential to be a leading participant in the BRICS at many levels of this international cooperation. In this regard, the gap our research purpose to analyze is the positioning of Brazil towards BRICS in the 11 years we propose to investigate whether Brazil was a key member of BRICS during this period. In our research, we observe the key points of mentioned changes within the listed governments and analyze their reflection and influence on the global political-economic scenario. Further paying attention to how it reflected on the group, by investigating the image the group builds globally. The present research will be a bibliographic case study based on qualitative methods of research, composed of an introduction, two chapters and a conclusion.