FUNAG publishes book on Brazilian diplomacy and national energy security

The work seeks to analyze the factors that establish Brazil’s energy security from the viewpoint of foreign policy. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been attentive to the needs inherent to the economic development of the country—and energy is a vital input for any growth strategy. Based on case studies, the work illustrates the cation of diplomacy in this area.

FUNAG publishes book on Mauá’s action in Uruguay and Argentina, with a yet unpublished photo album

Published originally in 1957, the book presents a part of the extensive history of Irineu Evangelista de Souza, the Baron and Viscount of Mauá. Teixeira Soares writes about Mauá’s action in the region of the Río de la Plata from 1851 to 1878, where he was a fundamental force in Brazilian foreign policy, at the request of imperial diplomacy.

FUNAG launches Spanish edition of book about Souza Dantas

The book narrates the story of Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas (1876-1954), a career diplomat and Ambassador of Brazil in France from 1922 to 1943. During the Second World War, Souza Dantas offered assistance to hundreds of Jewish people attempting to leave Europe to escape the Nazi occupation. For that deed, he received the title of “Righteous Among the Nations,” conferred onto non-Jewish who risked themselves to save Jewish from the holocaust.

Watch the conference of the Director of the Department of Middle East of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Sidney Leon Romeiro

On December 15, 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Alexandre de Gusmão Foundation (FUNAG), in partnership with the Federation of the Industries of the State of Minas Gerais (FIEMG), held a conference on Brazil’s new outlook on the Middle East, with the Director of the Department of Middle East of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Sidney Leon Romeiro.

2020 Ordinary Meeting of the Higher Administrative Council

On the occasion, there were presentations on: the execution of the 2020 work program (events held and the books published); the update of the work program and the publishing program for 2021; the execution of the 2020 budget; and other matters.

Watch the conference of the Secretary for Bilateral Negotiations in the Middle East, Europe and Africa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Kenneth Félix Haczynski da Nóbrega

On December 11, 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and FUNAG, in partnership with the Federation of the Industries of the State of Minas Gerais (FIEMG), held a conference on the new prospects for Brazil’s relations with Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, with the Secretary for Bilateral Negotiations in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, Ambassador Kenneth Félix Haczynski da Nóbrega.

FUNAG publishes book on the new Brazilian foreign policy: a selection of speeches, articles, and interviews by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ernesto Araújo – 2019

The Alexandre de Gusmão Foundation (FUNAG) has published a book on the new Brazilian foreign policy, which gathers a selection of 58 speeches, articles, and interviews by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ernesto Araújo, throughout 2019.

FUNAG publishes new issue of the Cadernos do CHDD

The 36th issue of the Cadernos do CHDD [CHDD Journals] is available for free download from FUNAG’s digital library. This issue resumes the work presented in the 35th issue of the Journals, with new transcripts of the correspondence of the Brazilian diplomatic missions in the countries neighboring the Plate river in the first half of the 19th century and of the missions in Japan and China in the beginning of World War II.

FUNAG launches a collection of essays by Rio Branco Institute students on the classics of Western thinking and literature

The work contains essays presented by the students of the IRBr Classics course. The texts address great ideas and authors of Western thinking and literature, such as Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Dante, Locke, Kant, Tocqueville, Nietzche, Proust, Kafka, and Guimarães Rosa, among others. The book is available for free download (Portuguese only) from FUNAG’s digital library.