O vazamento da WikiLeaks no governo Dilma Rousseff

Alterações da política externa, ações simbólicas e suas limitações

Abstract

The leak promoted by Wikileaks, in 2013 and 2015, which exposed espionage carried out by the United States National Security Agency under the Brazilian government was an important issue to understand the analysis of the bilateral relations between Brazil and the United States. Thus, this research seeks to understand (i) whether this event somehow changed the policy between these countries, (ii) what the degree of change was and (iii) what are the motivations associated with this change. The hypothesis raised during the study is that there was a strong symbolic mobilization of the State's discursive apparatus, but without the objective of changing the Foreign Policy in the material and immediate plane. Thus, it is pointed out that such movement results from a correlation between foreign policy, domestic policy and the historical development of the Workers' Party in Brazil. Thus, the strong symbolic actions and the inexistence of material actions are linked to a structure in which part of the internal policy seeks to interfere in the formulation of foreign policy, even if institutionally the president is the main articulator of the directions of such policy.