Brazil and China in Knowledge and Policy Transfer

This book examines knowledge and policy transfer from the perspectives of Brazil and China. It assesses how these two nations have emerged as providers of ideas and models that contribute to the global offer of public policies. With a variety of case studies in areas such as health, food security and infrastructure, the volume offers new insights into the distinct levels through which knowledge and policy transfers take place, including the local, regional, national and supranational. It develops a multidimensional framework of analysis that considers the agents, objects, and mechanisms for knowledge and policy transfer, as well as the structures and timings within which they operate. Unlike previous studies on policy transfer which largely focus on North-North and North-South learning processes this book offers an innovative approach to this area of study. By reflecting on the experiences of these two rising powers, it provides fresh insights on the future of knowledge and policy transfer as global power dynamics shift. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to students and scholars of policy transfer, development studies, international relations and public policy.

Provides a detailed analysis of the role of Brazil and China in global policy and knowledge diffusion Presents a framework of multi-level policy diffusion at local, sub-national and national levels Highlights the role of China and Brazil in global South-South cooperation and development

Autorentext
Osmany Porto de Oliveira is Assistant Professor in the International Relations Department at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Giulia C. Romano is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of East-Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Knowledge and Policy Transfers from Brazil and China: Research Questions for a Promising Agenda (Osmany Porto de Oliveira and Giulia C. Romano).- Chapter 2. Policy diffusion and transfer as foreign policy instruments: a classification with evidence from Brazil and China (Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria, Giulia C. Romano, Markus Taube).- Chapter 3. The rise and fall of Brazil as a policy exporter: from Lula da Silva to Jair Bolsonaro (Laura Trajber Waisbich, Juliana Ramos Luiz and Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria).- Chapter 4. China's global role: knowledge and policy diffusion (Jing Gu and Neil Renwick).- Chapter 5. Policy circulation and South-South Cooperation in Brazil-Africa relations: rise, fall and change (Laura Trajber Waisbich).- Chapter 6. China's policy export to Africa From the development-security nexus to knowledge-transfer (Georg Lammich).- Chapter 7. Social Policy Diplomacy: The Diffusion of Brazilian Instruments in the Fight Against Hunger (Osmany Portode Oliveira).- Chapter 8. From Hard to Soft Power: Chinese Policy Diffusion in Pakistan in the Age of CPEC (Asma Faiz).- Chapter 9. Knowledge and policy transfers along the BRI: the case of Duisburg (Giulia C. Romano and Markus Taube).- Chapter 10. The diffusion of Brazilian public policies within international venues: the cases of Health and Rural Development (Juliana Ramos Luiz and Maria Berta Ecija).