Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional ISSN: 0034-7329 ISSN: 1983-3121 Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais Cowan, Benjamin Arthur A hemispheric moral majority: Brazil and the transnational construction of the New Right Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, vol. 61, no. 2, e004, 2018 Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais DOI: 10.1590/0034-7329201800204 Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=35860343004 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System Redalyc More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Journal's webpage in redalyc.org Portugal Project academic non-profit, developed under the open access initiative A hemispheric moral majority: Brazil and the transnational construction of the New Right DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201800204 Rev. Bras. Polít. Int., 61(2): e004, 2018 Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional Abstract ISSN 1983-3121 This essay posits Brazil as one critical locus for gestating the New Right. Often http://www.scielo.br/rbpi conceived of as a conservative reaction to the U.S. Civil Rights movement, the New Right actually developed transnationally, with determinative participation Benjamin Arthur Cowan from Brazilian activists. In this article, I focus on a revelatory subset of those University of California San Diego, Department of History, San Diego – CA, activists, who demonstrate collaboration that (1) linked elite reactionaries in United States (
[email protected]). Brazil, the United States, and elsewhere; (2) facilitated the rise of conservative ORCID ID: Christianity as populist groundswell; and (3) transformed these two countries orcid.org/0000-0001-7024-1828 into power centers of a Right that adheres to the now-familiar Brazilian moniker “Bible, Bullets, and Beef.” Keywords: New Right; Brazil; Neoconservatism; Religious Right; United States.