by Ana Beatriz Ribeiro Across disciplines, scholars writing on Brazil used to take for granted the state actor’s image as a particularly open-minded “emerging power.” This dominant discourse has long prevented a fuller, critical interrogation of Brazilian development projects abroad, many of them taking place in the African Countries of Official Portuguese Language (PALOPs), billed as Brazil’s preferred recipients in the early 21st century. But since scandals and unrest ejected the Workers’ Party...