Peer Reviewed Publications

Publication Summary

Academic Monographs: 2                                  Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: 28

Guest Edited Journal Issues: 2                          Peer Reviewed Book Chapters: 12

Op-Eds and Short Articles: 48                          Book Reviews Since 2012: 19

Summary Citation Count

Career Google Scholar citations: 1,256

Career Google Scholar H-Index: 15

Career i10-Index: 18

 

Books

  1. Brazil in the World: The International Relations of a South American Giant (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017).
  • Winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s 2018 Luciano TomassiniLatin American International Relations Book Award
  • Named as a Chatham House journal International Affairs ‘Top Five Books for October 2017’.

 

  1. Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009).

 

  1. Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization (Basingstoke: Routledge, 2016).

Republication of a special issue of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research

Summary of Reviews of Sean W Burges, Brazil in the World: The International Relations of a South American Giant (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017).

  • Winner of the 2018 Latin American Studies Association Luciano Tomassini IR book award.
  • Named as a Chatham House journal International Affairs ‘Top Five Books for October 2017’.

 

“This is a book rich in conceptual and analytical terms, which avoids a descriptive historical narrative… This is a controversial book, which makes an important contribution to understanding Brazilian foreign policy with the concept of structural power and Brazil’s pursuit of it. It is an excellent conceptual tool for understanding an unusual foreign policy.”

Miriam Gomes Saraiva (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)

Latin American Politics and Society (Autumn 2017)

 

“[Burges’s] fine work does not encounter any voices to enter into a dialogue with. Although Burges proves that foreign policy in Brazil is a field demanding real political attention, policy-makers and scholars in the country have little to say in response.”

Fabrício Chagas Bastos

International Affairs (September 2017)

 

“Not only does the book’s conceptual frame seem to hold promise for interpreting Brazilian actions in a compelling way; many of the insights developed here could be more systematically extended to other emerging powers.”

Megan Pickup

Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research (2018)

 

Summary of Reviews of Sean W Burges, Brazilian Foreign Policy After the Cold War (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009).

“This book reflects important work and displays innovative characteristics in dealing with fundamental themes in Brazilian foreign policy, particularly during the 1990s, over the course of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s two-term administration.”

Tullo Vigevani (State University of São Paulo)

Journal of Latin American Studies 41 (2009)

 

“I highly recommend Burges’s book to anyone interested in Latin American politics, Latin American studies, and comparative foreign policy.”

José de Arimatéia da Cruz (Armstrong Atlantic State University)

Latin American Politics and Society 52 (3) (Fall 2010)

 

“All told, Burges’s work affords a very useful framework for understanding the factors that have impelled the emergence of Brazil in recent years as a formative member of the Group of 20 developing countries, as a leading exponent of South– South cooperation, and as an aspirant for a permanent seat on a restructured UN Security Council.”

Philip Chrimes

International Affairs 85 (6) (2009)

 

“Drawing on extensive interviews with Brazilian diplomats, the Canadian scholar Burges cogently argues that Brazil is self-consciously pursuing a “consensual hegemony” to establish leadership in South America, partly in order to gain regional support for its international initiatives.”

Richard Feinberg (Council on Foreign Relations)

Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct. 2009)

 

Summary of Reviews of Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization (Routledge, 2014).

“Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization provides a necessary complement and a consolidated response to the current debate about globalisation and its contemporary effects in Latin America. Well written and easy to under- stand, this book is recommended for the general reader as well as a specifically IR audience, especially students and scholars interested in the study of this region.”

Luis Francisco Rodriguez (Independent Scholar)

Political Studies Review (May 2017)

 

Guest edited journal special issues

  1. Policy Studies 38, No. 3 (2017). [with Tracy Beck Fenwick]
  2. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research Vol 19, No 2 (2013).

 

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. “Briefing Notes Crafting as a Pedagogical Approach to Political Science and International Relations Teaching.” Journal of Political Science Education (2018): https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2018.1472001 [co-authored with Fabrício Chagas Bastos]
  2. “The Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa at 20 Years: An Impact Assessment,” South African Journal of International Affairs 24 (3) (2017): 291-309. [co-authored with Ted Hewitt and Ines Gomes]
  3. “The Importance of Presidential Leadership for Brazilian Foreign Policy,” Policy Studies 38 (3) (2017): 277-290. [co-authored Fabrício Chagas Bastos]
  4. “Five faces of presidential governance: insights from policy-making in democratic Brazil,” Policy Studies 38 (3) (2017): 205-215. [co-authored with Tracy Beck Fenwick and Timothy J. Power]
  5. “Porque no les Callan? Hugo Chávez’s Re-election in Venezuela and the Decline of Western Hegemony in the Americas.” Latin American Perspectives 44 (1) (2017): 215-231.
  6. “Revisiting consensual hegemony: Brazilian regional leadership in question.” International Politics 52 (2) (February 2015): 193-207.
  7. “The Importance of Domestic Political Engagement: The Example of Questioning Autonomy and Sovereignty as Defensive Concepts in Brazilian Foreign Policy,” Revista Conjuntara Austral 5 (25) (August/September, 2014): 7-19.
  8. “Brazil’s International Development Cooperation: Old and New Motivations.” Development Policy Review 32 (3) (May, 2014): 355-374.
  9. “Desafio para o Itamaraty,” Política Externa 22 (4) (Apr/May/June, 2014). [Main Brazilian foreign policy journal]
  10. “Mistaking Brazil as a Middle Power.” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 19 (2) (2013): 286-302.
  11. “Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization.” Introduction to the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 19 (2) (2013): 175-178.
  12. “Brazil as a Bridge Between Old and New Powers?” International Affairs 89 (3) (May, 2013): 577–594.
  13. “Seria o Itamaraty um problema para a política externa brasileira?” Política Externa (Brazil) 21 (3) (Jan/Fev/Mar 2013): 133-148.
  14. “Developing from the South: South-South Cooperation in the Global Development Cooperation Game,” Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy & International Relations 2 (1) (July/Dec., 2012): 225-249.
  15. “Strategies and Tactics for Global Change: Democratic Brazil in Comparative Perspective,” Global Society 26 (3) (July, 2012): 351-368.
  16. “Moving in, carving out, proliferating: The many faces of Brazil’s multilateralism since 1989,” Pensamiento Próprio 16 (33) (Enero-Junio, 2011): 35-64. [with J Daudelin]
  17. “Brazilian International Development Cooperation: Budgets, Procedures and Issues with Engagement,” Global Studies Review 7 (3) (Fall, 2011).
  18. “Brazil as the Regional Leader: Meeting the Chávez Challenge,” Current History (February, 2010).
  19. “Brazil, the Entrepreneurial and Democratic BRIC”, Polity 42 (2010) [with L E Armijo].
  20. “Consensual Hegemony: Theorizing the Practice of Brazilian Foreign Policy.” International Relations 22 (1) (March, 2008): 65-84.

Translated into Portuguese and published in a Brazilian journal as “Hegemonia Consensual: Por uma teorização sobre a política externa brasileira no pós-guerra fria,” Monções: Revista de Relações Internacionais da UFGD 5 (9) (2016):357-385.

  1. “Building a Global Southern Coalition: The Competing Approaches of Brazil’s Lula and Venezuela’s Chavez.” Third World Quarterly 28 (7) (October, 2007): 1343-1358.
  2. “Canada’s Post-Colonial Problem: The United States and Canada’s International Policy Statement,” Canadian Foreign Policy 13 (1) (2006): 97-111.
  3. “Without Sticks or Carrots: Brazilian Leadership in South America During the Cardoso Era, 1992-2002.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 25 (1) (January, 2006): 23-42. Prestige factor: Winner of the Society for Latin American Studies Harold Blakemore Essay Prize
  4. “Auto-Estima in Brazil: The Rhetorical Logic of Lula’s South-South Foreign Policy.” International Journal 60 (3) (Autumn, 2005): 1133-1151. Prestige factor : Winner of the Marvin Gelber Prize
  5. “Bounded by the Reality of Trade: Practical Limits to a South American Region.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 18 (3) (October, 2005): 437-454.
  6. “Form Before Function: Democratization in Paraguay.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 25 (49) (2000): pp. 5-32. [with D Fournier.]
  7. “Chile, Copper, and the Persistence of the Structuralist Thesis.” Flinders Journal of History & Politics 21 (2000): pp. 49-69.
  8. “Presidential Politics and the Failure to Fast-Track Chile into NAFTA.” The Western Journal of Graduate Research 6 (1) (1997): pp. 52-59.

Book Chapters

  1. “Thinking Through Brazil’s Strategic Leadership Gap,” in Daniel Flemes and Hannes Ebert, eds, Contested Leadership in the Emerging Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  2. “South America and the Global Governance Structural Power Game,” in Pia Riggirozzi and Chris Wylde., eds., Routledge Handbook of South American Governance (London: Routledge, 2018).
  3. “Democracy Postponed: A political economy of Brazil’s oligarchic foreign policy,” in Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds., Democratic Brazil Divided (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). [co-authored with Jean Daudelin]
  4. “Latin American Diplomacy” in Pauline Kerr, Costas Constantinou and Paul Sharp, eds, The Sage Handbook of Diplomacy (London: Sage Publishing, 2016). [co-authored with Fabrício Chagas Bastos]
  5. “Strategies and Tactics for Global Change: Democratic Brazil in Comparative Perspective,” in Philip Nel, Dirk Nabers, Melanie Hanif, eds., Regional Powers and Global Redistribution (Basingstoke: Routledge, 2015). Republication from Global Society.
  6. “Australia-Latin American Education Relations.” in John Minns and Barry Carr, eds., Latin America and Australia: A developing relationship (Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2014).
  7. “Mistaking Brazil as a Middle Power.” In Sean W Burges, ed., Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization (Basingstoke: Routledge, 2014). Republication from the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research.
  8. “Introduction: Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization.” In Sean W Burges, ed., Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization (Basingstoke: Routledge, 2014). Republication from the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research.
  9. “Brazil: Making Room at the Main Table.” In Brian McKercher, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft (London: Routledge, 2012).
  10. “The Possibilities and Perils of Presidential Diplomacy: Lessons from the Lula Years in Brazil.” In Denis Rolland and Antônio Carlos Lessa, eds., Relations Internationales du Brésil: Les Chemins de la Puissance 1 (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010).
  11. “Brazil: Towards a Neoliberal Democracy.” In Jean Grugel and Pia Riggirozzi, eds., Governance After Neoliberalism in Latin America (London: Palgrave, 2009).
  12. “Brazil: How Realists Defend Democracy.” In Thomas Legler, Sharon F. Lean, and Dexter S. Boniface, eds., Promoting Democracy in the Americas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). [co-authored with Jean Daudelin]

Forthcoming journal articles

  • “Venezuela’s Democratic Decline and Brazil’s Growing Geopolitical Headache,” Pensamiento Proprio – submitted April 2018.