Autor/Autorin: Santos Deijenane
Master in Political Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), journalist and translator. Areas of interest: Brazilian Foreign Policy, Middle East, Former Ottoman Empire, World War I, International Security, Terrorism and Insurgency, Russia and Former Yugoslavia.
When he took office in 2003, President Lula sought to strengthen diplomatic ties with the countries of the Middle East, a region which, in retrospect, had always been treated as a low priority for Brazilian diplomacy, despite the fact that it is an area of paramount importance for international stability. The Lula administration (2003-2010) strengthened ties with the Arab-Islamic world in an unprecedented way in Brazilian diplomatic history, projecting the image of a nation in search of new political partners, with the aim of changing the balance of power in the post-Cold War international scenario.