Afionis, S and Stringer, LC orcid.org/0000-0003-0017-1654 (2020) Fuelling friendships or driving divergence? Legitimacy, coherence, and negotiation in Brazilian perceptions of European and American biofuels governance. Energy Research & Social Science, 67. 101487. ISSN 2214-6296
Abstract
Traditional global powers like the European Union and the United States are seeing the rise of emerging powers like Brazil as prospective cooperation partners. Examining how traditional powers are perceived by their emerging counterparts offers critical insights into the prerequisites for effective and durable partnerships. While the literature on external perceptions has expanded considerably, a comparative perspective on how emerging powers perceive the policies of the two transatlantic powers in issue-specific areas is lacking. We present a framework of explanatory variables (legitimacy, coherence and negotiating style) and apply it to interview data and the literature to unravel Brazil's relations on biofuels with the EU and US, including through trilateral partnerships with third countries. Our data show that while Brazil's partnership with the US has progressed, the one with the EU has struggled to advance. Our paper seeks to explain these differences using our framework, advance understanding on the external perceptions of the international role and collaborative posture of the EU and US, and provide policy insights for the fruitful conduct of partnerships.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Energy Research and Social Science. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Biofuels; Ethanol diplomacy; Renewable energy; Transport fuels; Renewable Energy Directive (RED); Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 251132 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2020 14:13 |
Last Modified: | 31 Mar 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101487 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:158950 |