Geopolitical Analysis of Brazil: Social Power Sources & Challenges

This essay provides a comprehensive geopolitical analysis of Brazil, focusing on its ideological, economic, military, and political sources of social power. It examines Brazil's political structure, highlighting its federal presidential republic framework. The analysis delves into the ideological beliefs and cultural aspects of the Brazilian people, economic strengths and challenges including recession and poverty, military capabilities and foreign policy, and the structure of its political system. The essay also addresses current challenges facing each power source, such as corruption, unemployment, and internal conflicts, offering insights into the country's present situation and potential future developments. It is stated that the website Desklib provides all the necessary AI based study tools for students.

ANALYSIS OF SITUATION
IN Brazil country USING 4
SOURCES OF SOCIAL
POWER

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Essay about the Brazil country country while using the four sources of social power...............3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Social power refers as the ability to design the standards, policies and to develop the
norms which are deemed to legitimate and consider as the essential part of the politics. It is the
power that are mainly found in the society within the government body (Heilbron, Boncour and
Sorá, 2018). This essay will cover the geopolitical situation analysis of the Brazil country,
description about the main social power which are ideological, economic, military and political.
This essay will also proceed to discuss the current challenges which have been faces by the
power sources for the particular region. For this essay the suitable structure as to discuss the
political profile of the Brazil country and then analysis of every social power takes place along
with the predictions to change the future aspects.
MAIN BODY
Essay about the Brazil country while using the four sources of social power
Brazil country’s political structure mainly takes place in a “federal presidential
republican” framework in which the president has the dual power, and they play as both state
head as well as head of the governmental body.
Ideological social power:
Ideology can be understood as a lens through which the person sees the world, it is their
perception to analyse everything. It can be sum up with the beliefs and values of the person, it is
completely linked with the social structure, how government implications plays a role in the
societies. For the people of the Brazil country it is seen that majority of the people are the
catholic Christian and it is found as the main religion for Brazil country. Citizens of the country
believes that their government body is much involve in the corruptions, that is affecting the
growth of their country. For the Brazil country people, they mainly appreciate their personal
values, for them it is important to have honesty and dignity in their relation. Brazil country has
the different cultural aspects which involves the Indigenous Indians, Africans and also have the
Portuguese elements which makes the Modern way of life for the Brazilian (Hancock, 2019).
Portuguese is the major dominant cultural aspect, through which the people of the Brazil country
mainly follows Portuguese language, their religion and customs. It is also found that people of

the country have left their native place and move to the Portugal due to the high rents and taxes
imposed on them by their government bodies. As for the ideological challenges, country have the
different cultural aspects, most of them follows the Portuguese and some prefers the African
culture so cultural conflicts can be seen between the citizens of the country. It is seen that youth
of the country have different cultural aspects which completely differs from their traditional
cultural properties. For the country it is important to have the strong ideological belief which
drives the development in the society, it is required for the government to implement the
legislations in order to promote the growth in their country. Current ideological challenges are
found for the Brazil country is crimes as in their country due to the social crisis crimes are
increasing, people are not satisfied with their government bodies. Kidnapping, robbing is the
major crime which is committed by the Brazil country people, they are not happy with their
political implications, people also feels that country's political parties are included in major
crimes (Mulgan, 2019).
Economic power:
Economy power refer as the strength of the countries, businesses in order to improve
their living standards, countries acquire their good economic position by enhancing their income.
Better economic standard will enable the country to invest on better services in order to develop
strong infrastructure for the country. Due to the political uncertainty, economy of the country is
getting worsen, for them unemployment, crimes, inflation are consider as the constant threat.
also political conspiracy remain erupted in the country. Brazil country economy is considered as
the one of the greatest in mining and agriculture across the world, also has fast growing strong
service sector. Country’s economy also categorized as boom and bust cycle, as it is stated that
the country in their 16th to mid 20th was completely dependent on their agricultural goods, and the
prices for those products were continuously fluctuated in the global market (Power and
Rodrigues-Silveira, 2019). Therefore in the 20th century government of the country decided to
diversify their production in order to increase their economic growth. Brazil country has the
second rank in world due to their emerging market they also marked as seventh greatest
economy in the world. Country is facing recession situation due to the pandemic, due to this
there is a high inflation and interest rate in the market can be seen, along with this unemployment
rate is also increases for the country. Youths are not happy with their political infrastructure they

feels that higher government do not play their responsibility well in order to protect human
rights. Country’s political bodies seen completely involve in the corruption, many politicians are
arrested due to their crime, it is the complete failure of their system. As country’s struggle
against the corruption completely shows that people of the country now have no believe or trust
in the country’s democracy. People of the country also prefer that they would not mind to trust in
non government body, if their problem is solving with the non politician infrastructure then they
have no problem. Citizens of the country also feels that they are powerless because of their no
end misery, study also suggested that about 4.1 million citizen of the country were in extreme
poverty which is the failure of their system, people also stated that there is no improvement in
their economy. It is seen that economy minister of the Brazil country has announced to cut their
GDP rate due to the massive interest rate in the market. Country’s approach for cutting down the
GDP is to develop the good job market also to promote the better infrastructure investment in the
country. Therefore the major economic challenges are the higher rate in unemployment as well
as huge increment in the poverty. It is seen that in the Brazil country because of their system
failure people faces many problem, due to the expose of government body, country fails to
increase their economy also it develops the job problem for their citizen, almost population of the
country goes under poverty. Covid also impacted the country’s economy very badly (Bernal-
Meza, 2019). As for the future growth country has proposed their major agenda is to remove the
regulatory hurdles to enhance the investment which is mainly in infrastructure, or to prevent the
crimes in the country so that citizen can live peacefully.
Military power:
Military power refers to the armed forces of a nation or in broader context; it shows and
illustrate the capabilities of the group as well as diversified teams. In context of their political
power it has been evaluated that Brazil country is a federal presidential republic (Nunes, 2020).
The Brazil country having the constitution that provides an extensive power to the government of
the area. The president is both the Head of State and Head of the Government. They are the ones
who hold executive power and appoint the council of ministers. The legislative power is
bicameral. The politics of Brazil country takes place in a structured manner of a federal
presidential representative democratic republic whereas the president is from multi party system.
Military power defines as the social organization in context of rigorous and fatal aggression

system. Concentrated illustrates the mobilized and focused approach of the sources while lethal
refers to the deadly. The military forces within the Brazil country are highly focused, furious,
physical and above all the mortalities. The Brazil country have a foreign policy results are the
most peaceful acceptance of Brazil country leadership in the region. The major problem within
the country in context of military power is that the resignation of force does not able to resolve
all the issues and dilemmas especially when there is a relationship with a very powerful state i.e.
USA. The policy excessively based upon the negotiation that might show certain signs of
weaknesses and may generate more damages than benefits. As per the current scenario, the
chances of inter-state conflicts are low. The world has super power and other middle level
powers in terms of maintaining the country stability. After the Cold war, there have hardly been
any war among the great powers and there seems to be little chance of there being others in the
upcoming future terms. Brazil country does not even have any enemy that can threaten them as a
sovereign nation along with anyone who can risk to national security due to drug trade (Pivello
and et.al., 2021). However, it does not mean that there have not been any conflicts and no risk of
violence within the nation. Hence, it is essential that that Brazil country has military tools in
order to act beyond their frontiers both in the case of peaceful mission. It performs in the interest
of nation that shows even symbolically their leadership within the continent.
Therefore, it is the military capacity that Brazil country might try to acquire in the
upcoming years which is medium level one. It implies while having suitable power in order to
protect the territory and the national airspace against the unequal intimidation and some of the
dissuasion against the strongest sates. Recently the Brazil country military capacity seemed to be
at lowest level. The air force, navy, military all are facing certain issues that can be required to
be resolved at utmost priority level to make the military power within the Brazil country highly
effective and efficient in each and every manner (Kuehn and Trinkunas, 2017). In order to
promote Brazil country’s domestic defence industry, the major part of their arms import deals
that include technology that transfer obligations. Hence, the country government reduced their
budget and focused towards implementation of the transaction tax over the people in order to
overcome from the recession position.
Thus, it has been analysed that military power of Brazil country is the second largest in
the America, after the USA and largest in Latin America by their equipment level. With the
generation of great political target after the Paraguayan War, the involution of the armed forces

was evidenced by the announcement of the republic which overthrew the empire or other
lieutenants movements. And after the Brazil's following the end of military rule the GDP among
the brazil country rose a great deal within the country.
Political power:
Political system illustrates that it is a sense of institutions or even groups along with their
relations. It also consists of patterns of interactions within the political system and governmental
regulations, rules and norms that are presented into persuasion system in a manner in which they
constitute the policy-making landscape of the Brazil country. Brazil country’s government
structure is not that much difficult to understand. It is formed by a union of the states, federal
district and municipalities (Smith, 2018). They have highly controlled system in order to get and
make sure that the law and the Brazil country fundamental law have been appropriately followed
in each and every context. They are the Head of States and have high amount of power to
execute along with administrate or manage the whole country. The Brazil country political
powers have been divided into three main branches of government such as Executive, judiciary
and legislative. These branches are again further sub divided into the state, federal and city
spheres. The legislative branches are directly involved with the laws and have the power to
create new and advanced laws along with do modifications in the existing laws. Another is the
executive branch that constitute that it is the country’s largest and highest level administrators
and applies the laws that have been approved by the legislative branch. Last is the judiciary
branch that is accountable for judging possible law infractions exist within the country. This
branch is responsible for judging each and every case or comprehends the situation and looking
for the best, fair and well managed judgement. Many people within the Brazil country consider
voting an important aspect because it went through a long period of military dictatorship in
which people are not allowed to provide their votes. Hence, the current political situation of the
Brazil country is all about getting optical phenomenon and lots of political fights over the
internet (Gaskarth, 2017). It becomes crazier after the Covid-19 as many people are accusing the
government of being responsible for deaths along with the lack of investment in healthcare
facilities.
Hence, it has been analysed that political risk that has been shared by the Brazil country
consists of placing the country into high political risk classification. These are the major issues

that has been assessed by the company while they are investing or closing specific deals. Apart
from this, the country is facing certain other serious issues as well corruption, health,
unemployment and political situation related issues.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that there are many difficulties that have been
faced by Brazil country such as shifting from customers driven expansion as the recent economic
growth has been driven by the consumption boom. They are facing certain deficiency within the
infrastructure facilities, rolling back to government, mounting fiscal pressures and erosion of
competitiveness. Hence, a detailed evaluation in context of all the four sources have been
discussed in detailed manner within the above stated report. Apart from this, they are also facing
poverty and inequality issues as well.

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