Lula’s Geostrategic Framing in War Times

Internationally, the world has changed significantly since the late 2000s, with increasing global tensions, not least the Russia-Ukraine war. To take an “emerging new global order” perspective, multipolarity seems to be drifting into an increasing polarisation between democratic nations and autocratic regimes. On one side, the United States, NATO countries, and the European Union support Ukraine, and on the other are “non-aligned” countries reluctant to condemn Russian aggression.
Lula is one of the masterminds behind the creation of BRICS in the late 2000s, an economic cooperative bloc between “emerging economies” from the Global South, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This grouping was designed as a strategic counterpoint to the Global North’s “imperialist” and predatory economic practices. Lula’s commitment to a Global South response to the Washington Consensus has not withered.