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[email protected] Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais Brasil Roriz, João Henrique Clashing frames: human rights and foreign policy in the Brazilian re-democratization process Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, vol. 60, núm. 1, 2017, pp. 1-17 Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais Brasília, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=35849807018 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Clashing frames: human rights and foreign policy in the Brazilian re-democratization process https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-73292017001020 Rev. Bras. Polít. Int., 60(1): e019, 2017 Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional Abstract ISSN 1983-3121 This article deals with the use of rights in the Brazilian foreign policy in the late http://www.scielo.br/rbpi 1970s. Two main arguments are advanced: there was a novel understanding of rights that clashed with the traditional statist one, and the Brazilian strategies João Henrique Roriz were less a complete rebuttal of rights language and more a reading of rights Universidade Federal de Goiás, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais, Goiânia - GO, Brazil as a possible threat to the Abertura process. (
[email protected]) Keywords: Human rights; Brazilian foreign policy; Ernesto Geisel administration; ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8234-9342 democratic transition; Brazilian military regime. Received: September 6, 2016 Accepted: June 26, 2017 Introduction uman rights history has traditionally been a field dominated Hby lawyers.