Internacionalização de política públicas: a internacionalização do Programa Fome Zero como instrumento da política externa dos governos Lula (2003-2010)

Abstract

This work proposes to investigate the internationalization of public policies as an instrument of Brazilian foreign policy, taking as the object of study the analyses from the specialized literature on the internationalization of the Zero Hunger Program. An attempt was made to understand how this literature indicates the strategic mobilization of this public policy in the context of Brazil’s international insertion, integrating into Brazilian foreign policy during the governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003–2010). For this purpose, an integrative review was carried out, a method that synthesizes accumulated empirical and theoretical production, aiming to offer a broader and deeper understanding of a particular phenomenon. The results obtained demonstrate that, according to the authors analyzed, the internationalization of the Zero Hunger Program was mobilized as one of the main pillars of Brazilian foreign policy during that period, by articulating technical, symbolic, and normative elements around a domestic policy of high social impact, and configuring a concrete example of Brazil’s ambition to modify its international identity. It is, therefore, an emblematic experience that reveals how domestic public policies can be instrumentalized as vectors of international projection and, more than that, as tools for transforming a country's position in the global system.