Állami térképzetek és klímapolitikai ütközések: Jair Bolsonaro Amazónia-stratégiája történeti összefüggésben
Territorial Visions and Climate Policy Clashes: Jair Bolsonaro’s Amazon Strategy in Historical Context

Summary/Abstract: The study examines how elements of Brazil's military geopolitical tradition related to the Amazon have been revived under Jair Bolsonaro's government. The analysis argues that Bolsonaro's sovereignist and climate-denying policies are not merely populist deviations but rather a structural continuity that comes from the idea of "grandeza" and the logic of a developmental-expansionist state. Recognizing climate change would have meant limiting Brazilian state control in the Amazon; therefore, climate policy necessarily appeared as an "external dictate" in government discourse. The study shows that under Bolsonaro, sovereignty became a selectively applied political resource that simultaneously rejected environmental norms and encouraged foreign economic presence. The Amazon embodied one of the sharpest geopolitical contradictions of the climate change era.

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