Framing Foreign Policy in India, Brazil and South Africa ― On the Like-mindedness of the Ibsa States

This book analyses the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum(IBSA), focusing on the communalities and differences in the way foreign policyis conceptualized in its member states. Utilizing 83 interviews with foreignpolicy makers and experts, as well as the analysis of 119 foreign-policyspeeches, the author traces key shifts in official foreign policy discourse. Inorder to evaluate the degree of support for key IBSA Dialogue Forum conceptswithin national discourse, the author also examines the interplay betweenofficial and broader societal discourses on foreign policy. This analysiscombines political science factors (foreign policy role conceptions) withlinguistic factors, thus enabling a qualitative and quantitative comparison ofdifferent framings of foreign policy. Extensive empirical material collectedduring six months of field research in India, Brazil and South Africa allowsthe author to present a differentiated account of their alleged like-mindedness.

Jorg Husar is Programme Officer for Latin America at the InternationalEnergy Agency (IEA) and currently a visiting lecturer at the Paris School ofInternational Affairs (Sciences Po). The present book originated as hisdoctoral thesis during his involvement in the research project "EmergingPowers as Partners of German Foreign Policy" (2006-2011) at the GermanInstitute of International and Security Affairs (SWP). His field research wassupported by foreign policy think tanks in the three IBSA countries: CentroBrasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais (CEBRI, Rio de Janeiro), SouthAfrican Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA, Johannesburg) and Institutefor Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS, New Delhi). In 2007 and 2010 he served asvisiting lecturer in Political Science at Freie Universitat Berlin, including acourse on the IBSA Dialogue Forum.